1997 No. 3003
RATING AND VALUATION

The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
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 19881 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(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 19922.

Amendment of the 1992 Regulations2.

Schedules 1, 2 and 4 to the 1992 Regulations are amended as follows.

Deductions from gross amount: county schools3.

(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).”3

(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 amounts4.

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 4ADULT 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
(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.