The Electricity Lands (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 2000

PART V: AMENDMENT OF ENACTMENTS

13.  The following amendments shall be made to the enactments specified in articles 14 and 15 below in their relation to the valuation of the lands and heritages prescribed for the purposes of section 6(1) of the 1975 Act in article 3 of this Order for the financial year 2000-01 and the four following financial years.

14.  In section 6(1) of the Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956(1), after the words “this Act”, there shall be inserted the words “and to any Order made by the Scottish Ministers under section 6 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975”.

15.—(1) Section 2(1)(c) of the 1975 Act(2) shall be amended by inserting at the end the following:–

“(iii) upon their ceasing to be lands and heritages within one of the classes of lands and heritages prescribed in the Electricity Lands (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 2000 (hereinafter in this Act referred to as “the 2000 Order”);”.

(2) Section 2(1)(d) of that Act shall be amended by inserting after the words “lands and heritages” the following words:–

• “(other than lands and heritages within one of the classes of lands and heritages prescribed in the 2000 Order)”.

(3) After paragraph (f) of section 2(1) of that Act there shall be inserted the following paragraph:–

“(ff) by entering therein, in relation to Scottish Power UK plc, Scottish and Southern Energy plc or British Energy Generation (UK) Limited, as the case may be, any lands and heritages within one of the classes of lands and heritages prescribed in the 2000 Order together with the rateable values determined and apportioned in accordance with that Order;”.

(4) In paragraph (a) of section 2(2) of that Act, after the words “sub-section (1)(a)” there shall be inserted the words “or (ff)”.

(5) In section 3(4) of that Act(3), after the words “lands and heritages” where they appear for the first time, there shall be inserted the following:–

• “(other than lands and heritages within one of the classes of lands and heritages prescribed in the 2000 Order)”.

Revocations

16.  The following Orders are hereby revoked:—

(a) the Electricity Distribution Lands (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1995(4);

(b) the Electricity Generation Lands (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1995(5); and

(c) the Electricity Transmission Lands (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1995(6).

(1)

1956 c. 60; section 6(1) was amended by the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 47), Schedule 6 and the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 6, paragraph 3.

(2)

Section 2(1)(c)(i) was repealed by the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 (c. 29), Schedule 4.

(3)

Section 3(4) was amended by the Local Government and Rating Act 1997, Schedule 3, paragraph 13(b).

(4)

S.I. 1995/373.

(5)

S.I. 1995/369.

(6)

S.I. 1995/370.