Article 8 Fixed Line Telecommunications
After article 7 (railways) insert—
“Fixed Line Telecommunications
7A.(1)Any lands and heritages which would (apart from this Order) be treated as justifying separate entries in two or more valuation rolls shall be treated for all purposes of the Valuation Acts as justifying only one entry in the valuation roll for Renfrewshire in respect of each fixed line operator if they are—
(a)occupied by that fixed line operator; and
(b)occupied by posts, wires, fibres, cables and ducts, telephone kiosks, towers, masts, switching equipment or other equipment, or by servitudes or wayleaves, being property used by that fixed line operator wholly or mainly for the purposes of monitoring, processing or transmission of communications signals for the provision of telecommunications services.
(2)A “fixed line operator” for the purposes of this article, is any of the companies registered at the date of this Order with the following names and registration numbers:
Company name Registration number AOL (UK) Limited 03462696 AtlasConnect Limited SC241790 Be Un Limited 05262862 British Telecommunications Public Limited Company 01800000 Cable and Wireless Public Limited Company 00238525 Easynet Limited 02954343 Entanet International Limited 03274237 Gamma Telecom Ltd 04340834 GEO Networks Limited 04614924 Global Crossing (UK) Telecommunications Limited 02495998 Lumison Limited SC236128 NEOS Networks Limited 03477297 NTL Business Limited 03076222 Opal Telecom Limited 03849133 Orange Limited 03110666 Pipex Broadband Limited 03137499 Pipex Communications Services Limited 03059016 Smallworld Cable Limited 05679836 SSE Telecommunications Limited SC213457 Telefónica O2 UK Limited 01743099 The JNT Association 02881024 Thus Group Holdings plc SC192666 Tiscali UK Limited 03408171 Verizon UK Limited 02776038 Virgin Media Limited 02591237 Vtesse Networks Limited 03900836. ”.