2001 No. 3910 (W.322)

RATING AND VALUATION, WALES

The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

Made

Coming into force

The National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers given to the Secretary of State by sections 140(4) and 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 19881, which are now vested in the National Assembly for Wales so far as exercisable in Wales2:

Name, commencement and interpretation1

1

The name of these Regulations is the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and they come into force on 31st December 2001.

2

In these Regulations “the 1992 Regulations” means the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 19923.

Amendment of the 1992 Regulations2

In relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 2002, Schedules 1, 2 and 4 to the 1992 Regulations are amended as follows:—

a

in paragraph 3(1)(b) of Schedule 1, for “75 per cent” there is substituted “90 per cent”;

b

in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 for “1.004” there is substituted “0.995”; and

c

for Schedule 4 to the 1992 Regulations there is substituted the schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 19984

John MarekThe Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

SCHEDULE

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE 4ADULT POPULATION FIGURES

Regulation 6

Billing authority area

Prescribed figure

Blaenau Gwent

54,438

Bridgend

101,462

Caerphilly

128,738

Carmarthenshire

133,164

Cardiff

251,733

Ceredigion

58,082

Conwy

89,317

Denbighshire

71,214

Flintshire

114,556

Gwynedd

91,623

Isle of Anglesey

50,068

Merthyr Tydfil

41,805

Monmouthshire

68,197

Neath Port Talbot

106,999

Newport

104,507

Pembrokeshire

88,716

Powys

99,692

Rhondda Cynon Taff

184,119

Swansea

180,714

Torfaen

68,089

Vale of Glamorgan (The)

93,719

Wrexham

97,374

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Under Part II of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 billing authorities in Wales are required to pay amounts (called non-domestic rating contributions) to the National Assembly for Wales. Rules for the calculation of those amounts are contained in the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992.

These Regulations amend those Regulations by substituting a new percentage in paragraph 3(1)(b) of Schedule 1 (deductions from gross amount), a new multiplier in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 (assumptions as to gross amount) and a new Schedule 4 (adult population figures).