The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2018 No. 1196 (W. 244)

Rating And Valuation, Wales

The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018

Made

15 November 2018

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

20 November 2018

Coming into force

31 December 2018

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 1988(1).

Title, commencement, application and interpretation

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 and they come into force on 31 December 2018.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

(3) In these Regulations “the 1992 Regulations” means the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992(2).

Amendment to the 1992 Regulations

2.—(1) The 1992 Regulations are amended as follows in relation to the financial years beginning on or after 1 April 2019.

(2) For Schedule 4 to the 1992 Regulations substitute the Schedule to these Regulations.

Mark Drakeford

Cabinet Secretary for Finance, one of the Welsh Ministers

15 November 2018

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE

“SCHEDULE 4

ADULT POPULATION FIGURES

Billing authority area	Prescribed figure
Blaenau Gwent	56,054
Bridgend/Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr	115,071
Caerphilly/Caerffili	142,461
Cardiff/Caerdydd	288,601
Carmarthenshire/Sir Gaerfyrddin	149,356
Ceredigion	60,755
Conwy	95,364
Denbighshire/Sir Ddinbych	75,794
Flintshire/Sir y Fflint	123,127
Gwynedd	100,332
Isle of Anglesey/Ynys Môn	56,365
Merthyr Tydfil/Merthyr Tudful	47,217
Monmouthshire/Sir Fynwy	76,004
Neath Port Talbot/Castell-nedd Port Talbot	114,199
Newport/Casnewydd	117,014
Pembrokeshire/Sir Benfro	100,513
Powys	108,273
Rhondda Cynon Taf	189,215
Swansea/Abertawe	198,208
Torfaen	73,176
Vale of Glamorgan/Bro Morgannwg	103,446
Wrexham/Wrecsam	106,331”

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.

(1)

Section 60 of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41) were amended by section 5 of, and Part 1 of Schedule 3 to, the Local Government Finance Act 2012 (c. 17).

(2)

S.I. 1992/3238, amended by S.I. 1993/1505, 1993/3077, 1994/547, 1994/1742, 1994/3125, 1995/3235, 1996/619, 1996/3018, 1997/3003, 1998/2962, 1999/3949 (W. 47), 2000/3382 (W. 220), 2001/3910 (W. 322), 2002/3054 (W. 289), 2003/3211 (W. 304), 2004/3232 (W. 280), 2005/3345 (W. 259), 2006/3347 (W. 307), 2007/3343 (W. 295), 2008/2929 (W. 258), 2009/3147 (W. 274), 2010/2889 (W. 239), 2011/2610 (W. 283), 2012/3036 (W. 310), 2013/3046 (W. 305), 2014/3193 (W. 323), 2015/1905 (W. 277), 2016/1169 (W. 286) and 2017/1159 (W. 287).