Welsh Statutory Instruments
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WALES
Made
29th March 2001
Coming into force
1st April 2001
1.—(1) The name of these Regulations is the Local Authorities (Capital Finance) (Rate of Discount for 2001/2002) (Wales) Regulations 2001 and they shall come into force on 1st April 2001.
(2) These Regulations apply to Wales only.
2. The percentage rate of discount prescribed for the financial year beginning on 1st April 2001 for the purposes of section 49 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 is 7 per cent.
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
29th March 2001
(This note does not form part of the Regulations)
Part IV of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 makes provision for the capital finance of local authorities.
Section 49(2) of that Act sets out a formula for determining, for the purposes of Part IV, the value of the consideration falling to be given by an authority under a credit arrangement in any financial year after the year in which the arrangement comes into being.
The percentage rate of discount prescribed for a financial year is one of the elements which make up the formula.
For the financial year beginning on 1st April 2001 these Regulations prescribe a percentage rate of discount of 7 per cent which is 0.5 per cent less than the rate of discount prescribed for 2000/2001.