# The Railtrack plc (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 2000 S.S.I. 2000/91 · made 20 March 2000 This Order makes provision for the valuation for financial year 2000-01 and for any subsequent financial year of certain lands and heritages occupied by Railtrack plc (“the prescribed class of lands and heritages”) (article 3). Made under: Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975 (Section 6, Section 35, Section 37) ## Introductory text RATING AND VALUATION Made 20th March 2000 Coming into force 1st April 2000 The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 6, 35 and 37(1) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and after consultation with such associations of local authorities, and of persons carrying on undertakings, as appeared to them to be concerned, and with such local authorities, persons, or associations of persons with whom consultation appeared to them to be desirable, all in accordance with section 6(4) of the said Act, hereby make the following Order, a draft of which has been laid before and has been approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament: ## 1 Citation and commencement This Order may be cited as the Railtrack plc (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000. ## 2 Interpretation (1) In this Order– “the 1975 Act” means the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975; “clerical work” includes writing, book-keeping, typing, filing, duplication, sorting papers or information, calculating (whether by manual, mechanical or electronic means), drawing, and the editorial preparation of matter for publication; “the Company” means Railtrack plc; “financial year” means the period of twelve months beginning with 1st April; “office premises” means any lands and heritages constructed or adapted as offices or for office purposes, or used wholly or mainly for such purposes; “office purposes” includes the purposes of administration and clerical work and handling money; “operational land”, in relation to the Company, means land which is used for the purposes of carrying on the undertaking of the Company, not being land which, in respect of its nature and situation, is comparable rather with land in general than with land which is used for the purposes of carrying on of statutory undertakings (within the meaning of section 214 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997); and “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. (2) Any reference in this Order to– (a) lands and heritages occupied by the Company includes a reference to lands and heritages which, if unoccupied, are owned by the Company; and (b) lands and heritages used for any purpose includes a reference to lands and heritages which are unused but in relation to which it appears that, when next in use, they will be used for such a purpose. ## 3 Prescribed class of lands and heritages (1) The following class of lands and heritages is hereby prescribed for the purposes of section 6(1) of the 1975 Act, namely any lands and heritages in Scotland (other than the lands and heritages mentioned in paragraph (2) below) occupied by the Company and used wholly or mainly for the purposes of the parts of the undertaking of the Company which are concerned with the carriage of goods and passengers by rail, or for purposes ancillary to those purposes (including the purpose of exhibiting advertisements). (2) The lands and heritages mentioned in this paragraph are lands and heritages consisting of or comprising– (a) premises used as a shop, hotel, museum or place of public refreshment; (b) premises used wholly or mainly as office premises occupied by the Company which are not situated on operational land of the Company; (c) premises (other than premises used in connection with the collection and delivery of parcels, goods or merchandise conveyed or to be conveyed by rail) used wholly or in part for purposes concerned with the carriage of goods or passengers by road transport or sea transport or with harbours, or for purposes incidental to such purposes; (d) premises used for more than one of the foregoing purposes; or (e) premises or rights so let out as to be capable of separate assessment. ## 4 Aggregate amount of rateable values for financial year 2000-01 and subsequent financial years For the purposes of section 6(1) of the 1975 Act, the aggregate amount of the rateable values of the prescribed class of lands and heritages for the financial year 2000-01 and for any subsequent financial year, is hereby prescribed as £18,417,000. ## 5 Apportionment of aggregate amount of rateable values For the purposes of section 6(2) of the 1975 Act, the aggregate amount of the rateable values of the prescribed class of lands and heritages which is prescribed by article 4 above shall be apportioned among the local authorities specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order in the amount shown opposite the name of each such local authority in column 2 of that Schedule. ## 6 Amendment of enactments The following amendments shall be made to the enactments specified in articles 7 and 8 below in their relation to the valuation of the prescribed class of lands and heritages for the financial year 2000-01 and for each subsequent financial year. ## 7 Amendment of enactments In section 6(1) of the Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956, after the words “this Act”, there shall be inserted the words “and to any Order made by the Scottish Ministers under section 6 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975”. ## 8 Amendment of enactments (1) Section 2(1)(c) of the 1975 Act shall be amended by inserting at the end the following:– “(iii) upon their ceasing to be lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the Railtrack plc (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 2000 (hereinafter in this Act referred to as “the 2000 Order”);”. (2) Section 2(1)(d) of that Act shall be amended by inserting after the words “lands and heritages” the following words:– “(other than lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the 2000 Order)”. (3) After paragraph (f) of section 2(1) of that Act, there shall be inserted the following paragraph:– “(ff) by entering therein any lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the 2000Order together with the rateable values apportioned by that Order to the local authorities whose areas comprise or form part of the valuation area;”. (4) In paragraph (a) of section 2(2) of that Act, after the words “subsection (1)(a)” there shall be inserted the words “or (ff)”. (5) In section 3(4) of that Act, after the words “lands and heritages” where they appear for the first time, there shall be inserted the following:– “(other than lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the 2000 Order)”. ## 9 Revocation The Railtrack PLC (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1995 is hereby revoked. ## Signature JACK McCONNELL A member of the Scottish Executive St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 20th March 2000 ## FIGURES FOR PURPOSES OF THE APPORTIONMENT OF AGGREGATE AMOUNT OF RATEABLE VALUES OF PRESCRIBED CLASS OF LANDS AND HERITAGES (1) (2) Local authority Apportioned amount £ Aberdeen City Council 395,715 Aberdeenshire Council 244,381 Angus Council 173,175 Argyll and Bute Council 195,281 East Ayrshire Council 287,720 North Ayrshire Council 659,802 South Ayrshire Council 941,581 Clackmannanshire Council 16,974 Dumfries & Galloway Council 282,045 East Dunbartonshire Council 124,612 West Dunbartonshire Council 397,657 Dundee City Council 183,791 City of Edinburgh Council 2,360,085 Falkirk Council 400,528 Fife Council 990,765 City of Glasgow Council 4,824,365 Highland Council 570,121 Inverclyde Council 218,776 North Lanarkshire Council 754,822 South Lanarkshire Council 611,161 East Lothian Council 442,692 Midlothian Council 202,308 West Lothian Council 515,545 Moray Council Council 140,603 Perth and Kinross Council 1,341,488 East Renfrewshire Council 112,699 Renfrewshire Council 549,914 The Scottish Borders Council 24,828 Stirling Council 453,566 ## Explanatory note (This note is not part of the Order) This Order makes provision for the valuation for financial year 2000-01 and for any subsequent financial year of certain lands and heritages occupied by Railtrack plc (“the prescribed class of lands and heritages”) (article 3). The Order prescribes the aggregate amount of the rateable values of the prescribed class of lands and heritages for financial year 2000-01 and for any subsequent financial year at £18,417,000 (article 4) and apportions that aggregate amount among local authorities (article 5 and Schedule). The Order amends certain enactments relating to the valuation of the prescribed class of lands and heritages and revokes a previous Order, now spent (articles 6 to 9). --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2000/91 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/railtrack-plc-rateable-values-scotland-order-2000 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.