Welsh Statutory Instruments
2003 No. 3211 (W.304)
RATING AND VALUATION, WALES
The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2003
Made 9th December 2003
Coming into force 31st December 2003

The National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers given to the Secretary of State by sections 140(4) and 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988 which are now vested in the National Assembly for Wales so far as exercisable in Wales:
1988 c. 41.
See the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).

Citation, commencement and application
1. (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 1992.
S.I. 1992/3238, amended by S.I 1993/1505, 1993/3077, 1994/547, 1994/1742, 1994/3125, 1995/3235, 1996/619, 1996/3018, 1997/3003, 1998/2962, 1999/3439 (W.47), 2000/3382 (W.220), 2001/3910 (W.322) and 2002/3054 (W.289).

Amendment of the 1992 Regulations
2. 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 1998.
1998 c. 38.
D. Elis-Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly
9th December 2003
SCHEDULE

“SCHEDULE 4 ADULT POPULATION FIGURES
Regulation 6
Billing authority area	Prescribed figure
Blaenau Gwent	52,800
Bridgend	99,400
Caerphilly	129,200
Carmarthenshire	137,000
Cardiff	238,900
Ceredigion	62,500
Conwy	87,500
Denbighshire	73,400
Flintshire	114,900
Gwynedd	91,900
Isle of Anglesey	53,000
Merthyr Tydfil	42,500
Monmouthshire	65,700
Neath Port Talbot	104,900
Newport	104,400
Pembrokeshire	88,000
Powys	99,700
Rhondda Cynon Taf	177,200
Swansea	176,100
Torfaen	69,200
Vale of Glamorgan (The)	91,200
Wrexham	100,700”

Regulation 2

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Under Part II of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988, billing authorities in Wales are required to pay amounts (called non-domestic rating contributions) to the National Assembly for Wales. Rules for the calculation of those amounts are contained in the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992 (“the 1992 Regulations”).
These Regulations amend the 1992 Regulations by substituting a new multiplier in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 (Assumptions as to gross amount) and a new Schedule 4 (Adult Population Figures).