1997 No. 3003
The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1997
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 140(4), 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 19881 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 31st December 1997.
2
In these Regulations “the 1992 Regulations” means the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 19922.
Amendment of the 1992 Regulations2
Schedules 1, 2 and 4 to the 1992 Regulations are amended as follows.
Deductions from gross amount: county schools3
1
In paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the 1992 Regulations, after sub-paragraph (1), there is inserted—
1A
For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above there shall be ignored any determination in so far as it is made in respect of the occupation of a hereditament for the purposes of a county school (within the meaning of section 31(1) of the Education Act 1996).
2
Paragraph (1) applies to a determination in so far as it is made in respect of a day in a financial year beginning on or after 1st April 1998.
Assumptions relating to provisional amounts4
In relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 1998—
a
in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations, for “0.962” there is substituted “0.996”;
b
in paragraph 8(1) of that Schedule, for “1.4 per cent.” there shall be substituted “1.1 per cent.”; and
c
for Schedule 4 to the 1992 Regulations there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE 4ADULT POPULATION FIGURES
Billing authority area
Prescribed figure
Blaenau Gwent
55,423
Bridgend
99,954
Caerphilly
126,829
Cardiff
239,246
Carmarthenshire
132,463
Ceredigion
55,582
Conwy
87,842
Denbighshire
71,811
Flintshire
111,283
Gwynedd
91,826
Isle of Anglesey
51,315
Merthyr Tydfil
43,221
Monmouthshire
67,464
Neath Port Talbot
107,569
Newport
102,890
Pembrokeshire
87,041
Powys
97,262
Rhondda, Cynon, Taff
183,117
Swansea
178,977
Torfaen
68,330
The Vale of Glamorgan
90,283
Wrexham
94,389
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
(This note is not part of the Regulations)