Welsh Statutory Instruments
2005 No. 3345 (W.259)
RATING AND VALUATION, WALES
The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2005
Made 6 December 2005
Coming into force 7 December 2005

The National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it 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, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1988 c. 41. The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 140(4) and 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988, are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

Title, commencement and application
1. (1) The title of these Regulations is the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and they come into force on 7 December 2005.
(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

Interpretation
2. In these Regulations “the 1992 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 1992”) 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), 2002/3054 (W.289), 2003/3211 (W.304) and 2004/3232 (W.280).

Amendment of the 1992 Regulations
3. In relation to financial years beginning on or after 1 April 2006, Schedules 2 and 4 to the 1992 Regulations are amended as follows:—
(a) in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 for “1.009” there is substituted “1.004”; 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
6 December 2005
SCHEDULE

“SCHEDULE 4 ADULT POPULATION FIGURES
Billing authority area	Prescribed figure
Blaenau Gwent	53,000
Bridgend	101,100
Caerphilly	130,200
Carmarthenshire	139,200
Cardiff	247,700
Ceredigion	63,800
Conwy	88,900
Denbighshire	75,000
Flintshire	116,400
Gwynedd	93,000
Isle of Anglesey	54,000
Merthyr Tydfil	42,200
Monmouthshire	67,800
Neath Port Talbot	106,300
Newport	105,600
Pembrokeshire	91,100
Powys	103,000
Rhondda Cynon Taf	178,800
Swansea	178,600
Torfaen	69,500
Vale of Glamorgan (The)	93,700
Wrexham	101,900”

Regulation 3

(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).