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

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2019 No. 1399 (W. 246)

Rating And Valuation, Wales

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

Made

28 October 2019

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

29 October 2019

Coming into force

31 December 2019

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 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 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 2020.

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

Rebecca Evans

Minister for Finance and Trefnydd, one of the Welsh Ministers

28 October 2019

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE

“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.

(1)

1988 c. 41.Section 60 of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 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 as 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), 2017/1159 (W. 287) and 2018/1196 (W. 244) .