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

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 3910 (W.322)

RATING AND VALUATION, WALES

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

Made

4th December 2001

Coming into force

31st December 2001

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 1988(1), which are now vested in the National Assembly for Wales so far as exercisable in Wales(2):

Name, commencement and interpretation

1.—(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 1992(3).

Amendment of the 1992 Regulations

2.  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 1998(4)

John Marek

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

4th December 2001

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE

Regulation 6

“SCHEDULE 4 ADULT POPULATION FIGURES

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”

Explanatory Note

(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).

(1)

1988 c. 41.

(2)

See the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672.

(3)

S.I. 1992/3238, amended by S.I. 1993/1505, 1993/3077, 1994/547, 1994/1742, 1994/3125, 1995/3235, 1996/3018, 1997/3003, 1998/2962, 1999/3439 (W.47) and 2000/3382 (W. 220).

(4)

1998 c. 38.