{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-valuation-of-utilities-scotland-amendment-no-2-order-2010/article-8",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2010/78",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating (Valuation of Utilities) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-valuation-of-utilities-scotland-amendment-no-2-order-2010",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Fixed Line Telecommunications",
  "text": "After article 7 (railways) insert—\n“Fixed Line Telecommunications\n7A. (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—\n(a) occupied by that fixed line operator; and\n(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.\n(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:\nCompany name\nRegistration number\nAOL (UK) Limited\n03462696\nAtlasConnect Limited\nSC241790\nBe Un Limited\n05262862\nBritish Telecommunications Public Limited Company\n01800000\nCable and Wireless Public Limited Company\n00238525\nEasynet Limited\n02954343\nEntanet International Limited\n03274237\nGamma Telecom Ltd\n04340834\nGEO Networks Limited\n04614924\nGlobal Crossing (UK) Telecommunications Limited\n02495998\nLumison Limited\nSC236128\nNEOS Networks Limited\n03477297\nNTL Business Limited\n03076222\nOpal Telecom Limited\n03849133\nOrange Limited\n03110666\nPipex Broadband Limited\n03137499\nPipex Communications Services Limited\n03059016\nSmallworld Cable Limited\n05679836\nSSE Telecommunications Limited\nSC213457\nTelefónica O2 UK Limited\n01743099\nThe JNT Association\n02881024\nThus Group Holdings plc\nSC192666\nTiscali UK Limited\n03408171\nVerizon UK Limited\n02776038\nVirgin Media Limited\n02591237\nVtesse Networks Limited\n03900836.\n”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/78/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:57:08.262961+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."
}