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The Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2010

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1.  This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2010. Article 2 shall come into force 31st March 2010 and all other articles shall come into force on 1st April 2010.

Revocation

2.  The Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2009(1) is hereby revoked.

Amendment of the Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Order 2005

3.  The Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Order 2005(2) is amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Order.

Fixed Line Telecommunications

4.  After article 7 (railways) insert–

Fixed Line Telecommunications

7A.(1) Any lands and heritages which would (apart from this Order) be treated as justifying separate entries in two or more valuation rolls shall be treated for all purposes of the Valuation Acts as justifying only one entry in the valuation roll for Renfrewshire in respect of each fixed line operator if they are—

(a)occupied by that fixed line operator; and

(b)occupied by posts, wires, fibres, cables and ducts, telephone kiosks, towers, masts, switching equipment or other equipment, or by servitudes or wayleaves, being property used by that fixed line operator wholly or mainly for the purposes of monitoring, processing or transmission of communications signals for the provision of telecommunications services.

(2) A “fixed line operator” for the purposes of this article, is any of the companies registered at the date of this Order with the following names and registration numbers:

Company nameRegistration number
AOL (UK) Ltd03462696
Atlas Connect LtdSC241790
Be Un Limited05262862
British Telecommunications plc01800000
Cable & Wireless plc00238525
Easynet Limited02954343
Entanet International Ltd03274237
Gamma Telecom Ltd04340834
GEO Networks Limited04614924
Global Crossing (UK) Telecommunications Ltd02495998
LumisonSC236128
NEOS Networks Ltd03477297
Ntl Business Ltd3076222
Opal Telecom Limited3849133
Orange Ltd03110666

Pipex Broadband Ltd

Pipex Communications Services Ltd

03137499

03059016

Smallworld Media Communications Ltd05679836
SSE Telecommunications LimitedSC213457
Telefónica O2 UK Limited01743099
The JNT Association02881024
Tiscali UK Ltd03408171
Thus plcSC192666
Verizon UK Limited02776038
Virgin Media Group02591237
Vtesse Networks Limited03900836.

5.—(1) At the end of column 1 in the Schedule (designated assessors for the valuation of utilities) add “Assessor for the Renfrewshire Valuation Joint Board”.

(2) At the end of column 2 in the Schedule add “The lands and heritages specified in article 7A (Fixed Line Telecommunications).”.

JOHN SWINNEY

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

9th February 2010

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