Welsh Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 559 (W.24)

COUNCIL TAX, WALES

Local Authorities (Alteration of Requisite Calculations) (Wales) Regulations 2001

Made

23rd February 2001

Coming into force

28th February 2001

The National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations in exercise of the power given to the Secretary of State by section 32(9) and 33(4) of the Local Government Act Finance Act 1992(1) which is now vested in the National Assembly for Wales so far as exercisable in Wale(2)).

Name, commencement and application

1.—(1) The name of these Regulations is the Local Authorities (Alteration of Requisite Calculations) (Wales) Regulations 2001 and they shall come into force on 28th February 2001.

(2) These Regulations have effect in relation to the financial year beginning on 1st April 2001 and apply to Wales only.

Relevant special grant

2. For subsection (12) of section 32 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 there is substituted —

“(12) In relation to Wales, in this section and in section 33 below, “relevant special grant” means the special grant payable in accordance with the special grant report (Special Grant Report (No 2) (Wales) 2001) approved by the National Assembly for Wales pursuant to section 88B of the Act on 6th February 2001.”

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

Edwina Hart

The Minister for Finance, Local Government and Communities

23rd February 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note does not form part of the Regulations)

Sections 32 and 33 respectively of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (“the Act”) set out how a billing authority is to calculate its budget requirement and the basic amount of its council tax for a financial year.

These Regulations amend the definition of “relevant special grant” in section 32(12) of the Act for the financial year beginning on 1st April 2001 in relation to Wales only. The definition is relevant to the operation of both section 32 and section 33.

A copy of the report to which reference is made in these Regulations may be obtained from the National Assembly for Wales.

(1)

1992 c. 14. Subsection (12) of section 32 was inserted by SI 1995/234 and substituted, in relation to the financial year beginning on 1st April 1998, by SI 1998/213.

(2)

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

(3)

1998 c. 38.