The Valuation for Rating (Plant and Machinery) (Scotland) Regulations 2000

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(a) GENERAL

Any of the plant and machinery specified in Table 1 and any motors which are used or intended to be used mainly or exclusively for driving any of the plant and machinery falling within paragraphs (b) to (f) of this Table.

(b) HEATING, COOLING AND VENTILATING

(i) Water heaters;

(ii) Headers and manifolds; steam pressure reducing valves; calorifiers; radiators; heating panels; hot-air furnaces with distributing ducts and gratings;

(iii) Gas pressure regulators; gas burners; gas heaters and radiators and the flues and chimneys used in connection with any such equipment;

(iv) Plug-sockets and other outlets; electric heaters;

(v) Refrigerating machines;

(vi) Water screens; water jets;

(vii) Fans and blowers;

(viii) Air intakes, channels, ducts, gratings, louvres and outlets;

(ix) Plant for filtering, washing, drying, warming, cooling, humidifying, deodorising and perfuming, and for the chemical and bacteriological treatment of air;

(x) Pipes and coils when used for causing or assisting air movement.

(c) LIGHTING

(i) Gas pressure regulators; gas burners;

(ii) Plug-sockets and other outlets; electric lamps.

(d) DRAINING

Pumps and other lifting apparatus; tanks; screens; sewage treatment plant and machinery.

(e) SUPPLYING WATER

Pumps and other water-lifting apparatus; sluice-gates; tanks, filters and other plant and machinery for the storage and treatment of water.

(f) PROTECTION FROM HAZARDS

Tanks; lagoons; reservoirs; pumps, hydrants and monitors; fire alarm systems; fire and explosion protection and suppression systems; bunds; blast protection walls; berms; lightning conductors; security and alarm systems; ditches; moats; mounds; barriers; doors; gates; turnstiles; shutters; grilles; fences.

LIST OF ACCESSORIES

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 with any such system; magnetic separators; driers; breakers; pulverisers; bunkers; gas-holders; tanks.

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 2:–

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

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

(c) travellers and cranes;

(d) oiling systems; earthing systems; cooling systems;

(e) 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;

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

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

(h) 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.