The Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Areas and Rateable Value Limits) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2004

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 91

RATING AND VALUATION

The Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Areas and Rateable Value Limits) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2004

Made

8th March 2004

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

9th March 2004

Coming into force

1st April 2004

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraphs 1(3)(c) of Schedule 2 to the Local Government and Rating Act 1997(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Areas and Rateable Value Limits) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2004 and shall come into force on 1st April 2004.

Amendment of the Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Areas and Rateable Value Limits) (Scotland) Order 1997

2.  The Schedule (designated rural areas) to the Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Areas and Rateable Value Limits) (Scotland) Order 1997(2) is amended as follows.

3.  In column 2 (excluded localities) omit the entries for–

(a) “Boddam” in the local authority area of Aberdeenshire;

(b) “Gretna” in the local authority area of Dumfries and Galloway; and

(c) “High Valleyfield” and “Lundin Links” in the local authority area of Fife.

4.  In column 3 omit the entries for–

(a) “Twechar” in the local authority area of East Dunbartonshire;

(b) “Springfield” and “Stratheden” in the local authority area of Fife;

(c) “Queenzieburn” in the local authority area of North Lanarkshire;

(d) “Murieston” in the local authority area of West Lothian;

(e) “Findhorn” in the local authority area of Moray; and

(f) “Brookfield” in the local authority area of Renfrewshire.

ANDREW P KERR

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh

8th March 2004

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Areas and Rateable Value Limits) (Scotland) Order 1997 (“the 1997 Order”) to remove certain excluded localities from columns 2 and 3 of the Schedule to the 1997 Order. The effect of this is that these localities are now to be considered as falling within the local authority areas designated as rural areas for the purposes of paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 by article 2 of the 1997 Order.

(1)

1997 c. 29. 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)

S.I. 1997/2827, amended by S.S.I. 2000/57 and S.S.I. 2003/141