The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 3036 (W.310)

RATING AND VALUATION, WALES

The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Made

4 December 2012

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

7 December 2012

Coming into force

31 December 2012

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 60, 140(4) and 143(1) of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988(1) and now vested in them(2).

Title, commencement, application and interpretation

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and they come into force on 31 December 2012.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

(3) In these Regulations “the 1992 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 1992”) means The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992(3).

Amendment to the 1992 Regulations

2.—(1) The 1992 Regulations are amended as follows in relation to financial years beginning on or after 1 April 2013.

(2) For Schedule 4 to the 1992 Regulations substitute the Schedule to these Regulations.

Carl Sargeant

Minister for Local Government and Communities, one of the Welsh Ministers

4 December 2012

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE

“SCHEDULE 4 ADULT POPULATION FIGURES

Billing authority area	Prescribed figure
Blaenau Gwent	55,476
Bridgend	110,509
Caerphilly	139,249
Carmarthenshire	146,347
Cardiff	274,592
Ceredigion	62,523
Conwy	93,382
Denbighshire	74,395
Flintshire	120,031
Gwynedd	97,845
Isle of Anglesey	56,398
Merthyr Tydfil	46,297
Monmouthshire	72,667
Neath Port Talbot	111,671
Newport	112,550
Pembrokeshire	97,509
Powys	106,868
Rhondda Cynon Taf	184,278
Swansea	191,909
Torfaen	71,371
Vale of Glamorgan (The)	99,443
Wrexham	106,015”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which apply in relation to Wales, amend the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992 (“the 1992 Regulations”).

Under Part II of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988, billing authorities (in Wales, county and county borough councils) are required to pay amounts (called non-domestic rating contributions) to the Welsh Ministers. The 1992 Regulations contain rules for the calculation of those contributions for Welsh billing authorities.

These Regulations amend the 1992 Regulations by substituting a new Schedule 4 (Adult Population Figures).

(1)

1988 c. 41.

(2)

The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 60, 140(4) and 143(1) and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 were transferred, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) — see the reference to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 in Schedule 1. By virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32) those functions are exercisable by the Welsh Ministers.

(3)

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), 2004/3232 (W.280), 2005/3345 (W.259), 2006/3347 (W.307), 2007/3343 (W.295), 2008/2929 (W.258), 2009/3147 (W.274), 2010/2889 (W.239) and 2011/2610 (W.283).