The Local Authorities (Funds) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 2964

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

FINANCE

The Local Authorities (Funds) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Made

22nd November 1994

Laid before Parliament

24th November 1994

Coming into force

15th December 1994

The Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 99(1) (2) and (4), 140(4), 143(1) and 146(6) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations–

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities (Funds) (Wales) -(Amendment) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 15th December 1994.

2.—(1) The Local Authorities (Funds) (Wales) Regulations 1992(2) (“the 1992 Regulations”) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1)–

(a)in the definition of “principal authority”, after “relevant major precepting authority” there shall be inserted “, its relevant police authority”;

(b)after the definition of “relevant major precepting authority” there shall be inserted–

  • ““relevant police authority”, in relation to a billing authority, means the police authority established under section 3 of the Police Act 1964(3) having power to issue a precept to that billing authority;”;

(c)in the definition of “relevant precepting authority”, after “relevant major precepting authority” there shall be inserted “, its relevant police authority”.

(3) In regulation 2(2), after sub-paragraph (a) there shall be inserted–

“(aa)pay anything from its collection fund in respect of any precept issued by its relevant police authority under Part I of the 1992 Act(4), after taking into account any amount credited by that police authority under section 42(4) of that Act,”.

(4) In regulation 6(1), after “relevant major precepting authority” there shall be inserted “and its relevant police authority”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Gwilym Jones

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

22nd November 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (“the 1994 Act”) provides for the new police authorities (established under section 3 of the Police Act 1964, as substituted by the 1994 Act, section 2) to be precepting authorities under Part I of the Local Government Finance Act 1992. These Regulations amend the Local Authorities (Funds) (Wales) (Regulations) 1992 (which deal with the payment of precepts) so as to bring the new police authorities within the rules for payment of precepts set out in those Regulations.

(1)

1988 c. 41; section 99 was substituted by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, Schedule 10, paragraph 24.

(3)

1964 c. 48, section 3 was substituted by the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29), section 2.

(4)

The Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14) to which relevant amendments were made by the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994, section 27.