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Welsh Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 3345 (W.259)

RATING AND VALUATION, WALES

The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Made

6 December 2005

Coming into force

7 December 2005

The National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by sections 140(4) and 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988(1), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Title, commencement and application

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and they come into force on 7 December 2005.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

Interpretation

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

Amendment of the 1992 Regulations

3.  In relation to financial years beginning on or after 1 April 2006, Schedules 2 and 4 to the 1992 Regulations are amended as follows:—

(a)in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 for “1.009” there is substituted “1.004”; and

(b)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(3)

D. Elis-Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

6 December 2005

Regulation 3

SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE 4ADULT POPULATION FIGURES

Billing authority areaPrescribed figure
Blaenau Gwent53,000
Bridgend101,100
Caerphilly130,200
Carmarthenshire139,200
Cardiff247,700
Ceredigion63,800
Conwy88,900
Denbighshire75,000
Flintshire116,400
Gwynedd93,000
Isle of Anglesey54,000
Merthyr Tydfil42,200
Monmouthshire67,800
Neath Port Talbot106,300
Newport105,600
Pembrokeshire91,100
Powys103,000
Rhondda Cynon Taf178,800
Swansea178,600
Torfaen69,500
Vale of Glamorgan (The)93,700
Wrexham101,900

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 (“the 1992 Regulations”).

These Regulations amend the 1992 Regulations by substituting a new multiplier in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 (Assumptions as to gross amount) and a new Schedule 4 (Adult Population Figures).

(1)

1988 c. 41. The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 140(4) and 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988, are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.