The Council Tax (Demand Notices) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2017 No. 40 (W. 16)

Council Tax, Wales

The Council Tax (Demand Notices) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Made

23 January 2017

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

25 January 2017

Coming into force

15 February 2017

The Welsh Minsters make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred upon the Secretary of State by sections 113(1) and 116(1) of, and paragraphs 1(1) and 2(4)(a), (e) and (j), and 4(4) and (5) of Schedule 2 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1992(1) and now vested in them(2).

(1)

1992 c. 14. Relevant amendments were made to section 113(1) by the Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26) section 127 and paragraphs 40 and 52 of Schedule 7 to and the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20) section 80. Schedule 2, paragraph 2(4)(j) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (“the 1992 Act”) was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 2012, section 16; paragraph 4 of the 1992 Act was amended by section 12 of the Local Government Finance Act 2012 and by Schedule 3 paragraph 29(7) of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 (anaw 7). Other amendments have been made to section 113 of, and Schedule 2 to, the 1992 Act that are not relevant to this instrument.

(2)

The powers vested in the Secretary of State by Schedule 2 of the 1992 Act were transferred, 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 1992 Act in Schedule 1 to that Order. The functions of the National Assembly for Wales were then transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).