The Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rating (Electronic Communications) (Wales) Order 2009

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 2706 (W.225)

COUNCIL TAX, WALES

RATING AND VALUATION, WALES

The Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rating (Electronic Communications) (Wales) Order 2009

Made

1 October 2009

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

6 October 2009

Coming into force

31 October 2009

The Welsh Ministers, (a) considering that the authorisation of the use of electronic communications by this Order for any purpose is such that the extent (if any) to which records of things done for that purpose will be available will be no less satisfactory in cases where use is made of electronic communications than in other cases; (b) with the consent of the Secretary of State(1); and (c) in exercise of the powers conferred on the National Assembly for Wales by sections 8 and 10 of the Electronic Communications Act 2000(2) and now vested in them(3) hereby make the following Order:

(1)

See section 10(5) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000 (c. 7).

(2)

2000 c. 7.

(3)

The functions conferred on the National Assembly for Wales by sections 8 and 10 of the Electronic Communications Act 2000 were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32). The powers under which the Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/613), the Non-Domestic Rating (Collection and Enforcement) (Local Lists) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1058) and the Non-Domestic Rating (Collection and Enforcement) (Central Lists) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/2260) were made were transferred, in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672); see the reference to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 and the Local Government Finance Act 1992 in Schedule 1. The functions were subsequently vested in the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006.