2000 No. 55
RATING AND VALUATION

The Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2000

Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 24(2) and 24A(4) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 19661 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.

Amendment of Regulations

2.

In paragraph (b) of Part 1 of the Schedule to the Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (Scotland) Regulations 19942, for “£1500” there shall be substituted “£1700”.

3.

The Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 19953 are hereby revoked.
Jack McConnell
A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (Scotland) Regulations 1994 prescribe classes of lands and heritages for the purposes of sections 24 and 24A of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966 (rating of unoccupied and partially unoccupied property in Scotland). The Schedule to those Regulations provides, amongst other things, that unoccupied lands and heritages, and the unoccupied part of partially unoccupied lands and heritages, will be wholly exempt from non-domestic rates if the lands and heritages have a rateable value of less than £1500. These Regulations amend that Schedule so that that exemption will now apply if the lands and heritages have a rateable value of less than £1700.