1999 No. 3439 (W. 47)

RATING AND VALUATION, WALES

The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Made

Coming into force

The National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers given to the Secretary of State by sections 140(4), 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 19881, which are now vested in it so far as exercisable in Wales2:

Citation, commencement and interpretation1

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 31st December 1999.

2

In these Regulations “the 1992 Regulations” means the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 19923.

Amendment of the 1992 Regulations2

In relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 2000, Schedules 1, 2 and 4 to the 1992 Regulations are amended as follows:—

a

in paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1, for the formula “(A × £39.50) + (B × 0.00087)” there is substituted the formula “(A × £39.90) + (B × 0.00078)”;

b

in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 for “0.999” there is substituted “1.005”;

c

for Schedule 4 to the 1992 Regulations there is substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 19984.

Dafydd Elis ThomasThe Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE 4ADULT POPULATION FIGURES

Article 2

Billing authority area

Prescribed figure

Blaenau Gwent

54,700

Bridgend

101,200

Caerphilly

127,500

Carmarthenshire

132,900

Cardiff

243,600

Ceredigion

56,800

Conwy

88,900

Denbighshire

70,500

Flintshire

113,400

Gwynedd

91,700

Isle of Anglesey

50,200

Merthyr Tydfil

42,400

Monmouthshire

67,200

Neath Port Talbot

107,300

Newport

104,900

Pembrokeshire

87,400

Powys

98,700

Rhondda, Cynon, Taff

183,900

Swansea

179,400

Torfaen

68,300

Vale of Glamorgan (The)

92,000

Wrexham

96,300

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Under Part II of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 billing authorities in Wales are required to pay amounts (called non-domestic rating contributions) to the National Assembly for Wales and rules for the calculation of those contributions are contained in the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992.

These Regulations amend those rules by substituting a new formula in paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1 (deductions from gross amount), a new multiplier in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 (assumptions as to gross amount) and a new Schedule 4 (adult population figures).