The Council Tax (Valuation Bands) (Wales) Order 2003

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 3046 (W.289)

COUNCIL TAX, WALES

The Council Tax (Valuation Bands) (Wales) Order 2003

Made

26th November 2003

Coming into force

30th November 2003

The National Assembly for Wales makes the following Order in exercise of the powers given to the Secretary of State by section 5(4) and (4A) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992(1) which are now vested in the National Assembly for Wales so far as exercisable in relation to Wales(2).

Citation, commencement, application and interpretation.

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Council Tax (Valuation Bands) (Wales) Order 2003 and it comes into force on 30th November 2003.

(2) This Order applies only in relation to dwellings situated in Wales.

(3) In this Order, “the Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1992(1).

(4) Expressions used in this Order and in the Act have the same meaning in this Order as they have in the Act.

Different amounts for dwellings in different valuation bands

2.—(1) Section 5 of the Act is amended in accordance with this Article.

(2) After subsection (1), insert —

“(1A) For the purposes of the application of subsection (1) to dwellings situated in Wales, for the purposes of financial years beginning on or after 1st April 2005, for the proportion specified in that subsection there is substituted the following proportion:

• 6: 7: 8: 9: 11: 13: 15: 18: 21”.

(3)  As regards financial years beginning on or after 1st April 2005 the following Table is substituted for that set out in subsection (3) —

“Range of values	Valuation band
Values not exceeding £44,000	A
Values exceeding £44,000 but not exceeding £65,000	B
Values exceeding £65,000 but not exceeding £91,000	C
Values exceeding £91,000 but not exceeding £123,000	D
Values exceeding £123,000 but not exceeding £162,000	E
Values exceeding £162,000 but not exceeding £223,000	F
Values exceeding £223,000 but not exceeding £324,000	G
Values exceeding £324,000 but not exceeding £424,000	H
Values exceeding £424,000	I”.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(3)

D. Elis-Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly.

26th November 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

In section 5(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (“the Act”) there is set out the proportion in which the amounts of council tax in respect of dwellings in the same billing authority’s area (or in the same part of such an area) and listed in different valuation bands, shall be payable.

In section 5(3) of the Act there are set out the valuation bands for dwellings in Wales.

Section 5(4) of the Act authorises the substitution by order, as regards financial years beginning on or after such date as is specified in the order, of another proportion for that which is for the time being effective for the purposes of subsection (1), and of other valuation bands for those which are for the time being effective for the purpose of subsection (3).

Section 5(4A) authorises a change in the number of valuation bands set out in section 5(3).

Article 2 of this Order substitutes another proportion and other valuation bands for those set out respectively in subsections (1) and (3) of section 5 of the Act.

(1)

1992 c. 14, as amended by s78 of the Local Government Act 2003.

(2)

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

(3)

1998 c. 38.