The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 3382 (W. 220 )

RATING AND VALUATION, WALES

The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Made

12th December 2000

Coming into force

31st December 2000

The National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers given to the Secretary of State by sections 140(4) and 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988(1), which are now vested in the National Assembly for Wales so far as exercisable in Wales(2):

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 31st December 2000.

(2) In these Regulations “the 1992 Regulations” means the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992(3).

Amendment of the 1992 Regulations

2.  In relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 2001, 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 × £39.90) + (B × 0.00078)” there is substituted the formula “(A × £39.50) + (B × 0.00087)”;

(b) in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 for “1.005” there is substituted “1.004”;

(c) in paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 2, for “1.2 per cent” there is substituted “1 per cent”; and

(d) 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 1998(4).

D. Elis Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

12th December 2000

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE

Regulation 6

“SCHEDULE 4 ADULT POPULATION FIGURES

Billing authority area	Prescribed figure
Blaenau Gwent	54,700
Bridgend	101,400
Caerphilly	128,300
Carmarthenshire	132,800
Cardiff	247,800
Ceredigion	57,600
Conwy	88,700
Denbighshire	70,600
Flintshire	113,600
Gwynedd	91,100
Isle of Anglesey	50,300
Merthyr Tydfil	42,000
Monmouthshire	67,500
Neath Port Talbot	107,000
Newport	104,300
Pembrokeshire	87,600
Powys	99,100
Rhondda Cynon Taff	184,400
Swansea	179,700
Torfaen	68,100
Vale of Glamorgan (The)	92,200
Wrexham	96,800”

Explanatory Note

(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. Rules for the calculation of those amounts are contained in the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992.

These Regulations amend those Regulations 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), a new percentage in paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 2 (assumptions as to deductions from gross amount) and a new Schedule 4 (adult population figures).

(1)

1988 c. 41.

(2)

See the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672.

(3)

S.I. 1992/3238, amended by S.I. 1993/1505, 1993/3077, 1994/547, 1994/1742, 1994/3125, 1995/3235, 1996/3018, 1997/3003, 1998/2962 and 1999/3439.

(4)

1998 c. 38.