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:

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 .

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
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
Regulation 4
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
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.
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.
S.I. 1992/3238, amended by S.I. 1993/1505, 1993/3077, 1994/547, 1994/1742, 1994/3125, 1995/3235 and 1996/3018.
1996 c. 56.