RATING AND VALUATION Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Abolition of Domestic Rates (Domestic and Part Residential Subjects) (Scotland) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 8th January 1988. Interpretation 2 In these Regulations— “ the Act ” means the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987; “the 1968 Act ” means the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 ; “caravan” has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of Part 1 of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 ; “hostel” means an establishment in which residential accommodation is provided and which is— managed by a housing association registered with the Housing Corporation under section 5 of the Housing Associations Act 1985 ; or operated other than on a commercial basis and in respect of which funds are provided wholly or in part by a government department or agency or a local authority; or managed by a voluntary organisation, and where the sole or main function of the establishment is to provide personal care or support, combined with board, to persons who are solely or mainly resident in the establishment; “nursing home” means— a nursing home within the meaning of section 10(2) of the Nursing Homes Registration (Scotland) Act 1938 in respect of which a person is registered; or any premises in respect of which an exemption has been granted under section 6 or 7 of that Act; “personal care” includes the provision of appropriate help with physical and social needs; “private hospital” means a private hospital within the meaning of section 12 of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 which is registered under that Act; “private motor vehicle” means a mechanically propelled vehicle not falling within Schedules 2, 3 and 4 to the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971 ; “residential care home” means— a residential establishment provided and maintained by a local authority in respect of the functions under section 27 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947 transferred to them by section 1(4)(c) of the 1968 Act; or a residential establishment to which Part IV of the 1968 Act applies; or residential accommodation provided and maintained by a local authority under section 7 of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984, and where the sole or main function of the establishment or accommodation is to provide personal care or support, combined with board, to persons who are solely or mainly resident in the establishment or accommodation; “support” means counselling or other help provided as part of a planned programme of care; “voluntary organisation” has the same meaning as in section 94(1) of the 1968 Act. DOMESTIC SUBJECTS Meaning of domestic subjects 3 1 The following classes and parts of classes of lands and heritages are prescribed for the purposes of section 2(3)(b) of the Act (meaning of domestic subjects), namely— a private car parking premises, being lands and heritages which are a garage, a carport or, as the case may be, a car parking stance— i whose use is ancillary to, and which is used wholly in connection with, other domestic subjects or the residential use made of part residential subjects, and ii which is used wholly or mainly for the accommodation of one or more private motor vehicles; b private storage premises, being lands and heritages— i whose use is ancillary to, and which are used wholly in connection with, other domestic subjects or the residential use made of part residential subjects, and ii which are used wholly or mainly for the storage of articles of domestic use (including cycles and other similar vehicles); c communal sheltered housing premises, being lands and heritages— i whose use is ancillary to, and which are used wholly in connection with, a group of dwellinghouses which have been provided with facilities which are substantially different from those of an ordinary dwellinghouse and which have been designed or adapted for occupation by elderly persons whose special needs require accommodation of the kind provided by the dwellinghouses, and ii in which there are facilities which are available for use by all the persons residing in the dwellinghouses or their guests; d communal residential establishments, being lands and heritages (other than any part of the lands and heritages specified in paragraph (2) below)— i which are used wholly as the sole or main residence of persons who reside there, or ii which are used wholly as residential accommodation by persons who, by virtue of section 8(4) of the Act, are to be regarded as being solely or mainly resident in the area of the local authority in which those lands and heritages are situated, and in which, in either case, there are facilities which are available for sharing by some or all of those persons. 2 The parts of the lands and heritages specified in this paragraph are any part of— a a hostel; b a nursing home; c a private hospital; and d a residential care home, which is not used wholly or mainly as the sole or main residence of persons employed there. 3 For the purposes of paragraph (1) above, lands and heritages, or parts of lands and heritages, which are not in use shall nevertheless be treated as private car parking premises, private storage premises, communal shel tered housing premises or, as the case may be, communal residential establishments, if that was the use last made of them. Meaning of domestic subjects-exceptions 4 The classes of lands and heritages prescribed for the purposes of section 2(4) of the Act (exceptions from the meaning of domestic subjects), are caravans, huts, sheds, bothies or other similar structures or buildings— a which are intended to be used wholly or mainly for residential purposes, and b which are not the sole or main residence of any person, and c which either— i in accordance with any licence or planning permission regulating the use of their pitches or sites, or for any other reason, are not allowed to be used for human habitation throughout the whole year, or ii by reason of their construction or the facilities which they do, or do not, provide are unfit so to be used. PART RESIDENTIAL SUBJECTS Meaning of part residential subjects-exceptions 5 The classes of lands and heritages which are prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of “part residential subjects” in section 26(1) of the Act (lands and heritages excluded from that definition) are any part of the lands and heritages specified in regulation 3(2) above. Dates relating to apportionment of values of part residential subjects 6 The date prescribed for the purposes of— a paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act (date before 1st April 1989 by which apportionments of net annual and rateable values of part residential subjects are to be made); and b paragraph 2 of that Schedule (date before 1st April 1989 by which valuation roll is to be altered by the addition of apportionment notes to entries relating to part residential subjects), is 1st October 1988. MISCELLANEOUS Fee for assessor’s certificate of value 7 The fee prescribed for the purposes of section 5(6) of the Act (fee for asssessor’s certificate of value of property constituting domestic subjects) is £100. Ian Lang Minister of State, Scottish Office New St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 16th December 1987