The Electricity Lands (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes provision for the valuation for financial years 2000-01 to 2004-05 of certain lands and heritages occupied–

(a) by Scottish Power UK plc and Scottish and Southern Energy plc (trading as Scottish Hydro-Electric) and used for the purposes of the distribution and transmission of electricity; and

(b) by Scottish Power UK plc, Scottish and Southern Energy plc and British Energy Generation (UK) Limited (formerly Scottish Nuclear Limited) and used for the purposes of the generation of electricity.

Those lands and heritages are prescribed at article 3.

The Order prescribes the aggregate amount of the rateable values of each such class of lands and heritages for financial year 2000-01 and prescribes how the aggregate amount should be arrived at for each of the four following financial years (articles 4, 7 and 10).

The Order also apportions the aggregate amounts between the appropriate companies concerned in respect of generation, distribution and transmission of electricity respectively (articles 5, 8 and 11) and among local authorities (articles 6, 9 and 12 and in the Schedules to the Order).

The Order also amends certain enactments relating to the valuation of those classes of lands and heritages and revokes previous Orders, now spent (articles 13 to 16).