Statutory Instruments
1997 No. 3003
RATING AND VALUATION
The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1997
Made 18th December 1997
Laid before Parliament 19th December 1997
Coming into force 31st December 1997

The Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 140(4), 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1988 c. 41; sections 140 and 143 were amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, “the 1989 Act”), Schedule 5, paragraphs 69 and 72, and by the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14, “the 1992 Act”), Schedule 13, paragraphs 78 and 80. Paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 were amended by the 1989 Act, Schedule 5, paragraph 42, and by the 1992 Act, Schedule 10, paragraph 6 and Schedule 13, paragraph 86.

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.
S.I. 1992/3238, amended by S.I. 1993/1505, 1993/3077, 1994/547, 1994/1742, 1994/3125, 1995/3235 and 1996/3018.

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).”

1996 c. 56.
(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.
SCHEDULE

“SCHEDULE 4 ADULT POPULATION FIGURES
Regulation 6
Billing authority area	Prescribed figure
Blaenau Gwent	55,423
Bridgend	99,954
Caerphilly	126,829
Cardiff	239,246
Carmarthenshire	132,463
Ceredigion	55,582
Conwy	87,842
Denbighshire	71,811
Flintshire	111,283
Gwynedd	91,826
Isle of Anglesey	51,315
Merthyr Tydfil	43,221
Monmouthshire	67,464
Neath Port Talbot	107,569
Newport	102,890
Pembrokeshire	87,041
Powys	97,262
Rhondda, Cynon, Taff	183,117
Swansea	178,977
Torfaen	68,330
The Vale of Glamorgan	90,283
Wrexham	94,389”

Regulation 4
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Win Griffiths
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
18th December 1997

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations apply to Wales.
Under Part II of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 billing authorities are required to pay amounts (called non-domestic rating contributions) to the Secretary of State. Provisional amounts are paid during the year, final calculations and any adjustments of payments being made after the year ends. They are calculated in accordance with the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992 (“the 1992 Regulations”).
These Regulations amend the rules for calculating contributions in the 1992 Regulations for financial years beginning with 1998/99. Regulation 3 disallows deductions from contributions in respect of hereditaments occupied by county schools, and makes transitional provision. Regulation 4 alters certain figures used in the calculation of provisional amounts.