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

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2019 and comes into force on 1 April 2019.

Amendment of the Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Order 2005

2.  The Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Order 2005(1) is amended in accordance with articles 3 to 6.

3.  For article 2(1)(b)(ii) (electricity generation) substitute—

“(ii)the primary source of energy in such generation is biomass, the use of wind, wave, water, tidal or solar power, or the burning of refuse.”.

4.  In the definition of “a Company” in article 3(2) (electricity transmission and distribution), in sub-paragraph (b)(iii) for “SP Transmission Limited” substitute “SP Transmission PLC”.

5.  In the definition of “Company” in article 4(3) (gas), omit “at the date of this Order” in both places where it occurs.

6.  For article 7A(2) (fixed line telecommunications) substitute—

“(2) A “fixed line operator”, for the purposes of this article, is any of the companies registered with the following names and registration numbers—

Company nameRegistration number
AtlasConnect LimitedSC241790
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company01800000
Cityfibre Limited09759465
Centurylink Communications UK Limited2495998
Easynet Limited02954343
Entanet International Limited03274237
Everything Everywhere Limited08263590
Gamma Telecom Ltd04340834
GEO Networks Limited04614924
Hutchison 3G UK Limited03885486
JISC05747339
JISC Services Limited02881024
NEOS Networks Limited03477297
NTL Business Limited03076222
Oath (UK) Limited03462696
Orange Limited03110666
Pipex Broadband Limited03137499
Pipex Communications Services Limited03059016
Pulsant (Scotland) LimitedSC236128
Sky Home Communications Limited05262862
Sky Telecommunications Services Ltd02883980
Smallworld Cable Limited05679836
SSE Telecommunications LimitedSC213457
Talk Talk Communications Ltd03849133
Telefonica UK Limited01743099
Thus Group Holdings LimitedSC192666
Tiscali UK Limited03408171
Verizon UK Limited02776038
Virgin Media Limited02591237
Vodafone Enterprise U.K.01541957
Vodafone Limited01471587
Interoute Vtesse Limited03900836.”.

DEREK MACKAY

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

14th February 2019