In these Regulations:—

• “the 1975 Act” means the Local Government (Scotland) Act 19752;

• “electronic communication” has the meaning given to it in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 20003;

• “lands and heritages” has the meaning prescribed by and under section 42 of the Lands Valuation (Scotland) Act 18544;

• “local authority” means the rating authority for the area in which the lands and heritages are situated;

• “rateable value” means the rateable value entered in the valuation roll for that date in respect of the applicable lands and heritages and includes a rateable value so entered with retrospective effect;

• “renewable heat or power” means heat or power produced from the following sources—

  1. a

     biomass;

  2. b

     biofuels;

  3. c

     fuel cells;

  4. d

     photovoltaics;

  5. e

     water (including waves and tides, but excluding production from the pumped storage of water);

  6. f

     wind;

  7. g

     solar power;

  8. h

     geothermal sources;

  but heat or power produced by a combined heat and power system is not renewable unless that system uses only sources of energy described in sub-paragraphs (a) to (h) and has an electrical capacity of 50 kilowatts or less; and

• “valuation roll” means the roll made up under section 1 of the 1975 Act5.