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      SCOTTISH STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

      2000 No. 284

      RATING AND VALUATION

      The Electricity Lands and Water Undertakings (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2000

        Made 14th August 2000 
        Coming into force in accordance with article 1(1)

      The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 6, 35(2) and 37(1) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975[1], 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:

      Citation, commencement and date of effect
           1.  - (1) This Order may be cited as the Electricity Lands and Water Undertakings (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2000 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

          (2) This Order shall have effect as from 1st April 2000[      2].

      Amendment of Electricity Lands (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 2000
           2. The Electricity Lands (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 2000[3] is amended as follows:-

        (a) in article 7(a), for "£73,110,000", there shall be substituted "£72,900,000";

        (b) in article 8(1)(a), for "£53,080,000", there shall be substituted "£52,870,000";

        (c) in each of the Schedules, for the words "Apportioned amount" in each place they appear, there shall be substituted the words "Apportionment figure"; and

        (d) in each of the column headings in each of the Schedules where the sign "£" appears, it shall be omitted.

      Amendment of Water Undertakings (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 2000
           3. The Water Undertakings (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 2000[4] is amended as follows:-

        (a) in article 5(3), for "(1/3;E × 2/3F)" there shall be substituted "1/3;E + 2/3F"; and

        (b) in each of the column headings in Schedule 2 where the sign "£" appears, it shall be omitted.


      JACK McCONNELL
      A member of the Scottish Executive

      St Andrew's House, Edinburgh
      14th August 2000

      EXPLANATORY NOTE

      (This note is not part of the Order)

      This Order makes minor amendments to the Electricity Lands (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 2000, principally to correct an apportioned figure in the prescribed class of distribution lands made for Scottish Power UK plc and to the Water Undertakings (Rateable Values) (Scotland) Order 2000, principally to correct an error in a formula applying to Water authorities with effect from 1st April 2001.

      This Order has effect from 1st April 2000 to co incide with the coming into force of the Orders amended.

       [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 repealed by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c.39), Schedule 14; section 6(5A) and (8) was inserted by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, sections 160 and 157; section 37(1) contains a definition of "prescribed" which is relevant to the exercise of the powers under which this Order is made and which was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, Schedule 13, paragraph 43(c). The functions of the Secretary of State under those sections of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975 were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).back

      [2] In terms of subsection (6) of section 6 of the 1975 Act, an Order under that section may provide that the Order shall have effect as from the beginning of the financial year in which it is made.back

      [3] S.S.I. 2000/88.back

      [4] S.S.I. 2000/90back


      ISBN 0 11 059438 X


 



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