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 4ADULT POPULATION FIGURES

Billing authority areaPrescribed figure
Blaenau Gwent54,700
Bridgend101,400
Caerphilly128,300
Carmarthenshire132,800
Cardiff247,800
Ceredigion57,600
Conwy88,700
Denbighshire70,600
Flintshire113,600
Gwynedd91,100
Isle of Anglesey50,300
Merthyr Tydfil42,000
Monmouthshire67,500
Neath Port Talbot107,000
Newport104,300
Pembrokeshire87,600
Powys99,100
Rhondda Cynon Taff184,400
Swansea179,700
Torfaen68,100
Vale of Glamorgan (The)92,200
Wrexham96,800

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).

(2)

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