Citation, commencement and application1

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 31st December 2003.

2

In these Regulations “the 1992 Regulations” means the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 19923.

Amendment of the 1992 Regulations2

In relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 2004, Schedules 2 and 4 to the 1992 Regulations are amended as follows:—

a

in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 for “0.999” there is substituted “0.998”; and

b

for Schedule 4 to the 1992 Regulations there is substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 19984.

D. Elis-ThomasThe Presiding Officer of the National Assembly