2003 No. 1714 (W.182)
RATING AND VALUATION, WALES

The Non-Domestic Rating (Collection and Enforcement)(Local Lists) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Made
Coming into force
The National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers given to the Secretary of State by sections 62, 143(1) and (2) and 146(6) of, and paragraphs 1 and 3 of Schedule 9 to, the Local Government Finance Act 19881, which are now vested in the National Assembly for Wales so far as exercisable in Wales2:

Name and commencement1.

These Regulations are called the Non-Domestic Rating (Collection and Enforcement) (Local Lists) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003 and will come into force on 10th July 2003.

Application and Interpretation2.

(1)

These Regulations apply to Wales only.

(2)

In these Regulations “the Principal Regulations” (y “Prif Reoliadau”) means the Non-Domestic Rating (Collection and Enforcement) (Local Lists) Regulations 19893.

Amendment of Principal Regulations3.

The Principal Regulations are amended as follows —

(a)

in regulation 13(1) omit —

(i)

“(in which case the order shall be in the form specified as Form A in Schedule 2, or a form to the like effect),”; and

(ii)

“(in which case the order shall be in the form specified as Form B in that Schedule, or a form to the like effect)”;

(b)

in regulation 17(1) omit “, and shall be in the form specified as Form C in Schedule 2, or in a form to the like effect”; and

(c)

omit Schedule 2.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 19984.
D.Elis-Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Non-Domestic Rating (Collection and Enforcement) (Local Lists) Regulations 1989 (as amended) (“the Regulations”) prescribe the powers by which local authorities may collect and recover non-domestic rates. In particular, regulations 13(1) and 17(1) of and Schedule 2 to the Regulations prescribe the forms of Liability Order and Warrant of Commitment which must be used by Magistrates' Courts following applications by local authorities to them for such orders or warrants.

The Lord Chancellor’s Department have recently conducted a review of the forms used in Magistrates' Courts and now wish to implement a new set of forms which are all to have a consistent style. As part of this process, it is necessary to de-prescribe the forms of Liability Order and of Warrant of Commitment mentioned above.

These Regulations remove the requirement that Magistrates' Courts must use the specified forms of Liability Order and Warrant of Commitment or forms to like effect in connection with the collection and recovery of non-domestic rates.