Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 31st December 1997.
(2) In these Regulations “the 1992 Regulations” means the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992(1).
Amendment of the 1992 Regulations
2. Schedules 1, 2 and 4 to the 1992 Regulations are amended as follows.
Deductions from gross amount: county schools
3.—(1) In paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the 1992 Regulations, after sub-paragraph (1), there is inserted—
“(1A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above there shall be ignored any determination in so far as it is made in respect of the occupation of a hereditament for the purposes of a county school (within the meaning of section 31(1) of the Education Act 1996).”(2)
(2) Paragraph (1) applies to a determination in so far as it is made in respect of a day in a financial year beginning on or after 1st April 1998.
Assumptions relating to provisional amounts
4. In relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 1998—
(a)in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations, for “0.962” there is substituted “0.996”;
(b)in paragraph 8(1) of that Schedule, for “1.4 per cent.” there shall be substituted “1.1 per cent.”; and
(c)for Schedule 4 to the 1992 Regulations there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.