SCHEDULE 1Matters to be contained in demand notices

Regulation 3

1.

The address and a description of each hereditament to which the demand notice relates (“relevant hereditament”).

2.

The rateable value shown for each relevant hereditament in the authority’s local non-domestic rating list.

F13.

The non-domestic rating multiplier calculated for the relevant year in accordance with paragraph A15 or, as the case may be, paragraph A14 of Part A2 of Schedule 7 to the 1988 Act.

4.

Where F2regulations under paragraphs 1(2)(b) and 3(9) of Schedule 4ZB to the 1988 Act are or will be in force on any day in the relevant year, a statement of the days, if any, on which, for the purposes of calculating the payments required to be made under the demand notice, it was understood or assumed that the conditions mentioned in section 45(1) of the 1988 Act12 were or would be fulfilled in relation to any relevant hereditament, and a statement that as regards those days the chargeable amount is reduced by the proportion provided for in the F3regulations as compared with the amount it would be if paragraph 1(1)(b) of Schedule 4ZB to the 1988 Act13 applied to the calculation of the chargeable amount for those days.

5.

Where F4paragraph 2 of Schedule 4ZB to the 1988 Act14 applies to any relevant hereditament on any day in the relevant year, a statement as regards those days the chargeable amount is zero under that section and a statement of the amount which would have been demanded if F5F6paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 4ZB to the 1988 Act applied to the calculation of the chargeable amount for those days.

6.

A statement of the days, if any, on which, for the purposes of calculating the payments required to be made under the demand notice, it was understood or assumed that—

(a)

the chargeable amount would fall to be calculated under F7paragraph 2(1) or 4(1) of Schedule 4ZA to the 1988 Act15;

(b)

the chargeable amount would fall to be calculated by reference to F8paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 4ZA to the 1988 Act as substituted by section 44A(7) or (9) of that Act16; or

(c)

rules under section 47(1)(a) or F958(3) of the 1988 Act17 would apply;

together with a statement of the manner in which the chargeable amount for those days was calculated and of the amount by which the aggregate amount demanded under the demand notice is reduced as compared with the amount which would have been demanded if F10paragraph 1 of Schedule 4ZA, without modification, and (so far as is relevant) paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 4ZA without substitution, applied to the calculation of the chargeable amount for those days.

F117.

The demand notice must contain the following paragraphs—“The Non-Domestic Rating (Provision of Information About Changes of Circumstances) (Wales) Regulations 2026 require a ratepayer for the relevant hereditament shown in a local non-domestic rating list to notify the billing authority when certain changes of circumstances occur. You must notify the billing authority of the date on which any of the following changes occurred, within the period of 60 days of that date—

(a)

you became the ratepayer of the property,

(b)

the property has become occupied and was previously unoccupied (empty), or

(c)

the property has ceased to be occupied (has become empty).

Failure to comply with this requirement may result in liability to a fine of £500. Providing information which is false in a material particular may result in liability on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.”