Explanatory note

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.