The Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

Amendments to the principal Regulations

2.—(1) The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), in the definition of “the major precepting authority”, the words “(a) the county council, and (b)” shall be deleted.

(3) In regulation 9(2), for “7, 8, 9 and 12” there shall be substituted “7 and 9”.

(4) In paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 2—

(a) in the note headed “Non-Domestic Rates”, for the words after “redistributed to” to the end of that note there shall be substituted “county and county borough councils and police authorities. Your council and police authority use their shares of redistributed rate income, together with income from their council tax payers, revenue support grant provided by the Government and certain other sums, to pay for the services they provide.”;

(b) in the note headed “Alteration of Rateable Value”, for “6 months” there shall be substituted “3 months”.

(5) In paragraph 1 of Part II of Schedule 2—

(a) in the note headed “Trethi Annomestig”, for the words after “gynghorau” to the end of that note there shall be substituted “sir a bwrdeistref sirol ac awdurdodau heddlu. Defnyddia eich cyngor a'ch awdurdod heddlu eu cyfran o'r incwm trethi a ailddosberthir, ynghyd â'r incwm o'u trethdalwyr, y grant cynnal refeniw a ddarperir gan y Llywodraeth a rhai symiau eraill, i dalu am y gwasanaethau a ddarperir ganddynt hwy.”;

(b) in the note headed “Newid y Gwerth Trethiannol”, for “6 mis” there shall be substituted “3 mis”.

(6) For paragraph 8(c) of Part I of Schedule 3 there shall be substituted—

“(c) where a body has issued a levy or special levy to the billing authority that was taken into account for the relevant year by the authority in making its estimate under section 32(2)(a) of the 1992 Act, of the amount of the levy or special levy together with information as to whether any of it was treated as special expenses of the authority.”.

(7) For paragraph 12(b) of Part I of Schedule 3 there shall be substituted—

“(b) where a body has issued a levy or special levy to the billing authority that was taken into account for the preceding year by the authority in making its estimate under section 32(2)(a) of the 1992 Act, of the amount of the levy or special levy.”.

(8) Nothing in paragraphs (4)(b) and (5)(b) above shall affect the operation of the principal Regulations in relation to demand notices issued by a billing authority which relate to a financial year beginning on or before 1st April 1994.

(9) Nothing in paragraphs (2), (6) and (7) above shall affect the operation of the principal Regulations in relation to demand notices issued by a billing authority which relate to a financial year beginning on or before 1st April 1995.