{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-and-quarries-rateable-values-scotland-order-1995/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-and-quarries-rateable-values-scotland-order-1995/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/366",
  "legislation_title": "The Mines and Quarries (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-and-quarries-rateable-values-scotland-order-1995",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1954 Act” means the Mines and Quarries Act 1954;\n“the 1956 Act” means the Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956;\n“the 1975 Act” means the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975;\n“mine” and “quarry” have the same meanings as in the 1954 Act but include a well or bore hole or a well and bore hole combined;\n“net annual value” has the same meaning as in section 6(8) of the 1956 Act;\n“prescribed class of lands and heritages” means the class of lands and heritages prescribed for the purposes of section 6(1) of the 1975 Act in article 3 of this Order;\nand any other expression which is used in this Order which is also used in the 1954 Act shall have the same meaning as in that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1956 c. 60."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 6(8) was amended by the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 47), Schedule 6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/366/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:16:27.870414+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}