2020 No. 1366 (W. 302)

Rating And Valuation, Wales

The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

Made

Laid before Senedd Cymru

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 2020 and they come into force on 31 December 2020.

2

These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

3

In these Regulations, “the 1992 Regulations” 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 2021.

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

Blaenau Gwent

56,285

Bridgend/Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr

117,680

Caerphilly/Caerffili

143,125

Cardiff/Caerdydd

292,013

Carmarthenshire/Sir Gaerfyrddin

151,377

Ceredigion

60,456

Conwy

95,925

Denbighshire/Sir Ddinbych

76,246

Flintshire/Sir y Fflint

123,785

Gwynedd

101,246

Isle of Anglesey/Ynys Môn

56,637

Merthyr Tydfil/Merthyr Tudful

47,469

Monmouthshire/Sir Fynwy

77,230

Neath Port Talbot/Castell-nedd Port Talbot

115,254

Newport/Casnewydd

119,331

Pembrokeshire/Sir Benfro

101,871

Powys

108,508

Rhondda Cynon Taf

191,160

Swansea/Abertawe

200,005

Torfaen

74,510

Vale of Glamorgan/Bro Morgannwg

105,935

Wrexham/Wrecsam

106,892

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.