The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2013 No. 3046 (W. 305)

Rating And Valuation, Wales

The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

Made

4 December 2013

Laid before the National Assembly for Wale

5 December 2013

Coming into force

31 December 2013

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 60 of and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (1).

Title, commencement, application and interpretation

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and they come into force on 31 December 2013.

(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(2).

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 2014.

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

Lesley Griffiths

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

4 December 2013

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE

“SCHEDULE 4 ADULT POPULATION FIGURES

Billing authority area	Prescribed figure
Blaenau Gwent	55,660
Bridgend	110,834
Caerphilly	139,761
Carmarthenshire	146,779
Cardiff	276,824
Ceredigion	63,408
Conwy	93,634
Denbighshire	74,777
Flintshire	120,348
Gwynedd	98,397
Isle of Anglesey	56,447
Merthyr Tydfil	46,439
Monmouthshire	73,144
Neath Port Talbot	112,032
Newport	112,919
Pembrokeshire	98,021
Powys	107,174
Rhondda Cynon Taf	185,566
Swansea	192,893
Torfaen	71,767
Vale of Glamorgan (The)	99,722
Wrexham	106,615”

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 (S.I. 1992/3238) (“the 1992 Regulations”).

Under Part II of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c.41), 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. Section 60 of and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c.41) were amended by section 5 of and Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the Local Government Finance Act 2012 (c.17).

(2)

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), 2011/2610 (W.283) and 2012/3036 (W.310).