2017 No. 640 (W. 146)
Town And Country Planning, Wales

The Listed Buildings (Urgent Works) (Interest Rate on Expenses) (Wales) Order 2017

Made
Laid before the National Assembly for Wales
Coming into force
The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 55 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 19901, and the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 93 of that Act and now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers2, make the following Order:

Title, commencement and application1.

(1)

The title of this Order is the Listed Buildings (Urgent Works) (Interest Rate on Expenses) (Wales) Order 2017 and it comes into force on 31 May 2017.

(2)

This Order applies to Wales.

Recovery of interest on expenses2.

(1)

The rate of interest carried by expenses which a local authority or the Welsh Ministers may recover under section 55(5B) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 is 2% per annum above the Bank of England base rate.

(2)

In paragraph (1), “Bank of England base rate” (“cyfradd sylfaenol Banc Lloegr”) for any particular day means—

(a)

except where sub-paragraph (b) applies, the rate as last announced at a meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England held prior to that day as the official dealing rate, being the rate at which the Bank is willing to enter into transactions for providing short-term liquidity in the money markets; or

(b)

if an order under section 19 (reserve powers) of the Bank of England Act 19983 is in force, any equivalent rate determined by the Treasury under that section.
Ken Skates
Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure, one of the Welsh Ministers
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 54 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (“the 1990 Act”) enables a local authority or the Welsh Ministers to execute works which appear to them to be urgently necessary for the preservation of listed buildings.

This Order makes provision in relation to the rate of interest carried by expenses which a local authority or the Welsh Ministers may recover under section 55 of the 1990 Act in relation to such works.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to this Order. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a Regulatory Impact Assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with this Order.