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:

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 .

Amendment of the 1992 Regulations
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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
D. Elis-Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly
6 December 2005
SCHEDULE
Regulation 3
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
(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).
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.
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).
1998 c. 38.