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1993 No. 880 (S.116)

RATING AND VALUATION

The British Railways Board (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1993

Made

19th March 1993

Coming into force

1st April 1993

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 6, 35 and 37(1) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with such associations of local authorities, and of persons carrying on undertakings, as appeared to him to be concerned, and with such local authorities, persons, or associations of persons with whom consultation appeared to him to be desirable, all in accordance with section 6(4) of the said Act, hereby makes the following Order, a draft of which has been laid before and has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the British Railways Board (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.

Interpretation

2.-(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires-�

"the 1975 Act" means the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975;

"the Board" means the British Railways Board;

"clerical work" includes writing, book-keeping, typing, filing, duplicating, sorting papers or information, calculating (whether by manual, mechanical or electronic means), drawing, and the editorial preparation of matter for publication;

"financial year" means the period of twelve months beginning with 1st April;

"non-domestic water rate" shall be construed in accordance with the provisions of section 40 of the Water (Scotland) Act 1980(2);

"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 Board, means land which is used for the purposes of carrying on the Board's undertaking, 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 the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972(3)); 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 Board includes a reference to lands and heritages which, if unoccupied, are owned by the Board; 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.

Prescribed class of lands and heritages

3.-(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 Board and used wholly or mainly for the purposes of the parts of the Board's undertaking which are concerned with the carriage of goods and passengers by rail, or for purposes ancillary to those purposes.

(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 Board which are not situated on operational land of the Board;

(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.

Non-domestic water rate

4. The non-domestic water rate shall not be leviable in respect of the prescribed class of lands and heritages in respect of the financial year 1993-94.

Aggregate amount of rateable values for financial year 1993-94

5. 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 1993-94 is hereby prescribed as £12,170,417.

Apportionment of aggregate amount of rateable values

6. 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 for the financial year 1993-94 which is prescribed by article 5 shall be apportioned among the local authorities specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order in the amount shown opposite to the name of each such local authority in column 2 of that Schedule.

Amendment of enactments

7. The following amendments shall be made to the enactments specified in articles 8 and 9 below in their relation to the valuation of the prescribed class of lands and heritages for the financial year 1993-94.

8. In section 6(1) of the Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956(4), after the words "this Act", there shall be inserted the words "and to any Order made by the Secretary of State under section 6 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975".

9.-(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 British Railways Board (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1993 (hereinafter in this Act referred to as "the 1993 Order");".

(2) Section 2(1)(d) of that Act shall be amended by inserting after the words "lands and heritages" the following words:-�

(3) After paragraph (g) of section 2(1) of that Act, there shall be inserted the following paragraphs:-�

"(gg)by deleting therefrom, with effect from 1st April 1993, any lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the British Railways Board (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1992(5) which were entered in the roll immediately before that date;

(ggg)by entering therein, with effect from 1st April 1993, any lands and heritages within the class of lands and heritages prescribed in the 1993 Order 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 section 3(2) of that Act, for the words from "and any such person" to the end, there shall be substituted the following:-�

(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:-�

Revocation

10. The British Railways Board (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 1992 is hereby revoked.

Allan Stewart

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew's House,

Edinburgh

19th March 1993

Article 6

SCHEDULEApportionment of aggregate amount of rateable values of prescribed class of lands and heritages for financial year 1993-94

(1)(2)
Local authorityApportioned amount
District Councils:
Berwickshire£ 12,210
Clackmannan15,118
Falkirk218,478
Stirling241,590
Annandale and Eskdale77,041
Nithsdale50,702
Wigtown12,123
Dunfermline179,085
Kirkcaldy259,324
North East Fife126,464
City of Aberdeen378,811
Gordon57,781
Kincardine and Deeside60,834
Moray82,202
Badenoch and Strathspey11,905
Caithess20,641
Inverness166,075
Lochaber75,733
Nairn7,850
Ross and Cromarty18,228
Skye and Lochalsh2,442
Sutherland12,821
East Lothian215,207
City of Edinburgh1,643,743
Midlothian137,947
West Lothian307,439
Argyll and Bute13,606
Bearsden and Milngavie23,112
Clydebank44,481
Clydesdale35,323
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth10,582
Cumnock and Doon Valley40,992
Cunninghame325,609
Dumbarton240,064
East Kilbride13,083
Eastwood18,316
City of Glasgow4,310,247
Hamilton54,438
Inverclyde117,088
Kilmarnock and Loudoun111,056
Kyle and Carrick649,910
Monklands157,281
Motherwell311,073
Renfrew327,789
Strathkelvin82,274
Angus80,821
City of Dundee116,434
Perth and Kinross695,044

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes provision for the valuation for the financial year 1993-94 of certain lands and heritages occupied by the British Railways Board (article 3) ("the prescribed class of lands and heritages").

The Order prescribes the aggregate amount of the rateable values of the prescribed class of lands and heritages for that financial year at £12,170,417 (article 5). It also apportions that aggregate amount among local authorities in accordance with the Schedule to the Order (article 6).

The Order provides that the non-domestic water rate shall not be leviable in respect of the prescribed class of lands and heritages for that financial year (article 4).

The Order amends certain enactments relating to the valuation of the prescribed class of lands and heritages and revokes the Order for financial year 1992-93 concerning the British Railways Board (articles 7 to 10).

(1)

1975 c. 30; section 6(1) to (7) was substituted by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 4), section 1, and section 6(1) subsequently substituted by the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41), Schedule 12, paragraph 11 and amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), Schedule 13, paragraph 42; section 6(1A) was inserted by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 6, paragraph 18; section 37(1) contains a definition of "prescribed" which is relevant to the exercise of the powers under which this Order is made.

(2)

1980 c. 45; section 40 was substituted by the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 47), Schedule 5, paragraph 29, and amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, Schedule 6, paragraphs 16 and 18 and Schedule 12, Part II and by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, Schedule 11, paragraph 31.

(3)

1972 c. 52; the definition of "statutory undertakers" in section 275(1) was amended by the Gas Act 1986 (c. 44), Schedule 9, Part I and by the Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29), Schedule 18.

(4)

1956 c. 60; section 6(1) was amended by the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987, Schedule 6 and the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, Schedule 6, paragraph 3.

(5)

S.I. 1992/1795.


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