2019 No. 1399 (W. 246)

Rating And Valuation, Wales

The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2019

Made

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

Coming into force

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 60 of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 19881.

Title, commencement, application and interpretation1

1

The title of these Regulations is the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 and they come into force on 31 December 2019.

2

These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

3

In these Regulations “the 1992 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 1992”) means the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 19922.

Amendment to the 1992 Regulations2

1

The 1992 Regulations are amended as follows in relation to the financial years beginning on or after 1 April 2020.

2

For Schedule 4 to the 1992 Regulations substitute the Schedule to these Regulations.

Rebecca EvansMinister for Finance and Trefnydd, one of the Welsh Ministers

SCHEDULE

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE 4

ADULT POPULATION FIGURES

Billing authority area

>Prescribed figure

Blanenau Gwent

56,110

Bridgend/Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr

115,510

Caerphilly/Caerffili

142,910

Cardiff/Caerdydd

289,610

Carmarthenshire/Sir Gaerfyrddin

150,170

Ceredigion

60,670

Conwy

95,780

Denbighshire/Sir Ddinbych

75,920

Flintshire/Sir y Fflint

123,400

Gwynedd

100,760

Isle of Anglesey/Ynys Môn

56,520

Merthyr Tydfil/Merthyr Tudful

47,370

Monmouthshire/Sir Fynwy

76,570

Neath Port Talbot/Castell-nedd Port Talbot

114,860

Newport/Casnewydd

118,370

Pembrokeshire/Sir Benfro

101,000

Powys

108,420

Rhondda Cynon Taf

190,140

Swansea/Abertawe

199,280

Torfaen

73,820

Vale of Glamorgan/Bro Morgannwg

104,760

Wrexham/Wrecsam

106,930

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which apply in relation to Wales, amend the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992 (“the 1992 Regulations”).

Under Part 2 of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988, billing authorities (in Wales, county and county borough councils) are required to pay amounts (called non-domestic rating contributions) to the Welsh Ministers. The 1992 Regulations contain rules for the calculation of those contributions for Welsh billing authorities.

These Regulations amend the 1992 Regulations by substituting a new Schedule 4 (Adult Population Figures).

The Welsh Ministers’ 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.