The Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2019

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2019 No. 77

Rating And Valuation

The Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2019

Made

27th February 2019

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

1st March 2019

Coming into force

31st March 2019

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6A(1)(aa) and (1B) of the Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

In accordance with section 6A(1D) that Act(2) they have consulted such associations of local authorities and such other persons as they think appropriate.

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2019 and comes into force on 31 March 2019.

Amendment of the Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2019

2.—(1) The Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2019(3) is amended as follows.

(2) In the table in article 6 (company names and registration numbers for fixed line telecommunications operators)—

(a) in the entry for “Centurylink Communications UK Limited”, for the registration number substitute “02495998”,

(b) omit the entry for “Orange Limited” and the corresponding registration number,

(c) omit the entry for “Pipex Broadband Limited” and the corresponding registration number,

(d) for “Sky Telecommunications Services Ltd” substitute “Sky Telecommunications Services Limited”, and

(e) for “Talk Talk Communications Ltd” substitute “Talktalk Communications Limited”.

KATE FORBES

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

27th February 2019

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2019 (“the 2019 Order”).

That Order replaces a table in the Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Order 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/127). The table details companies to be regarded as “fixed line operators” for the purposes of entries in the valuation roll. The effect is that specified lands and heritages occupied by those operators are entered as a single entry in the valuation roll for Renfrewshire, despite being situated in different rating authority areas.

This Order updates entries in the table in the 2019 Order, so that when it comes into force on 1 April 2019 it states accurately the names and registration numbers of the companies it details. Two entries are omitted, as a result of dissolution of the companies to which they related.

(1)

1956 c.60. Section 6A was inserted by section 161 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c.39) and subsections (1)(aa) and (1B) were inserted by section 32(1) of the Local Government in Scotland Act 2003 (asp 1) (“the 2003 Act). The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).

(2)

Section 6A(1D) was inserted by section 32(1)(b) of the 2003 Act.

(3)

S.S.I. 2019/45, which is not yet in force.