Explanatory Notes

Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

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20 January 2021

Commentary on Sections

Part 8: Local Government Finance

Section 154 - Multipliers

680.This section amends Schedule 7 to the 1988 Act so that the consumer prices index is the measure of inflation when calculating the non-domestic rating multiplier (previously it was the retail prices index). A power is also provided to the Welsh Ministers to make regulations changing the measure of inflation.