The Valuation for Rating (Plant and Machinery) (Scotland) Regulations 1994

• Citation: S.I. 1994/3199
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Valuation for Rating (Plant and Machinery) (Scotland) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1995.

Section 2 Prescribed classes of plant and machinery

The classes of plant and machinery set out in the Schedule to these Regulations are hereby prescribed for the purposes of the definition of “lands and heritages” in section 42 of the Lands Valuation (Scotland) Act 1854.

Section 1

Any of the following plant and machinery which is used or intended to be used mainly or exclusively in connection with the handling, preparing or storing of fuel required for the generation or storage of power in or on the lands and heritages:—

cranes with their grabs or buckets; truck or wagon tipplers; elevating and conveying systems, including power winches, drags, elevators, hoists, conveyors, transporters, travellers, cranes, buckets forming a connected part of any such system, and any weighing machines used in connection therewith; magnetic separators; driers; breakers; pulverisers; bunkers; gas-holders; tanks.

Section 2

Any of the following plant and machinery which is used or intended to be used mainly or exclusively as part of or in connection with or as an accessory to any of the plant and machinery falling within Class 1 or Class 2:—

(i) foundations, settings, gantries, supports, platforms and stagings for plant and machinery;

(ii) steam-condensing plant, compressors, exhausters, storage cylinders and vessels, fans, pumps and ejectors; ash-handling apparatus;

(iii) travellers and cranes;

(iv) oiling systems; earthing systems; cooling systems;

(v) pipes, ducts, valves, traps, separators, filters, coolers, screens, purifying and other treatment apparatus, evaporators, tanks, exhaust boxes and silencers, washers, scrubbers, condensers, air heaters and air saturators;

(vi) shafting supports, belts, ropes and chains;

(vii) cables, conductors, wires, pipes, tubes, conduits, casings, poles, supports, insulators, joint boxes and end boxes;

(viii) instruments and apparatus attached to the plant and machinery, including computers, meters, gauges, measuring and recording instruments, automatic or programmed controls, temperature indicators, alarms and relays.