2015 No. 1905 (W. 277)

Rating And Valuation, Wales

The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Made

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

Coming into force

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 19881.

Title, commencement, application and interpretation1

1

The title of these Regulations is the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 and they come into force on 31 December 2015.

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 19922.

Amendment to the 1992 Regulations2

1

The 1992 Regulations are amended as follows in relation to financial years beginning on or after 1 April 2016.

2

For Schedule 4 to the 1992 Regulations substitute the Schedule to these Regulations.

Leighton AndrewsMinister for Public Services, one of the Welsh Ministers

SCHEDULE

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE 4

ADULT POPULATION FIGURES

Billing authority area

Prescribed figure

Blaenau Gwent

55,722

Bridgend

112,178

Caerphilly

141,099

Cardiff

281,207

Carmarthenshire

147,829

Ceredigion

62,875

Conwy

94,564

Denbighshire

75,337

Flintshire

121,644

Gwynedd

98,583

Isle of Anglesey

56,533

Merthyr Tydfil

46,587

Monmouthshire

74,234

Neath Port Talbot

112,590

Newport

113,566

Pembrokeshire

99,000

Powys

107,516

Rhondda Cynon Taf

186,911

Swansea

194,267

Torfaen

72,248

Vale of Glamorgan

100,662

Wrexham

107,275

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).