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

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2020 No. 1366 (W. 302)

Rating And Valuation, Wales

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

Made

27 November 2020

Laid before Senedd Cymru

30 November 2020

Coming into force

31 December 2020

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 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 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 2021.

(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

27 November 2020

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE

“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.

(1)

1988 c. 41. Section 60 of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988 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, 1999/3439 (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), 2018/1196 (W. 244) and 2019/1399 (W. 246).