The Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2020 No. 1250 (W. 283)

Exiting The European Union, Wales

Rating And Valuation, Wales

The Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Made

9 November 2020

Laid before Senedd Cymru

11 November 2020

Coming into force

31 December 2020

The Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 62 of, and paragraphs 1 and 2(2)(h) of Schedule 9 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988(1), and now vested in them(2).

Title, commencement and application

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 31 December 2020.

(3) These Regulations apply in relation to each financial year beginning on or after 1 April 2021.

Amendment of the Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) Regulations 2017

2.  In paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) Regulations 2017(3) (Explanatory Notes), omit the paragraph entitled “State aid”.

Rebecca Evans

Minister for Finance and Trefnydd, one of the Welsh Ministers

9 November 2020

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) Regulations 2017 (“the 2017 Regulations”) (S.I. 2017/113 (W. 39)) provide for the contents of non-domestic rates demand notices which are served by or on behalf of billing authorities in Wales.

Schedule 2 to the 2017 Regulations sets out the information which must be included in the explanatory notes that must accompany a demand notice, including certain information relating to the State aid regime of the European Union (“the State Aid Information”).

Regulation 2 of these Regulations removes the State Aid Information from Schedule 2 to the 2017 Regulations.

The Welsh Minsters’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.

(1)

1988 c. 41; see section 146(6) for the definition of “prescribed”. Paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 was amended by Schedule 13 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15). Paragraph 2(2)(h) was amended by sections 139 and 194(4) of, and paragraphs 1 and 44(3) of Schedule 5 and Part 2 of Schedule 12 to, the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42) and section 8(1) and (3) of the Local Government Finance Act 2012 (c. 17).

(2)

The powers of the Secretary of State under these provisions 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). The functions of the National Assembly for Wales were subsequently 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).

(3)

S.I. 2017/113 (W. 39), amended by S.I. 2018/122 (W. 28).