Interpretation
2. In these Regulations:—
“the 1975 Act” means the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975(1);
“electronic communication” has the meaning given to it in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000(2);
“lands and heritages” has the meaning prescribed by and under section 42 of the Lands Valuation (Scotland) Act 1854(3);
“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—
biomass;
biofuels;
fuel cells;
photovoltaics;
water (including waves and tides, but excluding production from the pumped storage of water);
wind;
solar power;
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 Act(4).
c.30.
c.7, which is relevantly amended by the Communications Act 2003 (c.21), Schedule 17, paragraph 158.
c.91; section 42 was relevantly amended by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994(c.39) (“the 1994 Act”), section 152.
Section 1 was repealed in part by the 1994 Act, Schedule 14 and the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 (c.29), Schedule 4.