The Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
Title, commencement and application1.
(1)
The title of these Regulations is the Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2023.
(2)
These Regulations come into force on 31 January 2023.
(3)
These Regulations apply to demand notices which relate to financial years beginning on or after 1 April 2023 and are issued by or on behalf of Welsh billing authorities.
Amendments to the Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) Regulations 20172.
(1)
(2)
In the paragraph entitled Rateable value, for “2017” substitute “2023”
and for “2015” substitute “2021”
.
(3)
In the paragraph entitled Revaluation, for “2017” substitute “2023”
and for “2015” substitute “2021”
.
(4)
In the paragraph entitled Alteration of rateable value, omit the words “If the ratepayer and the valuation officer do not agree the valuation within 3 months of the proposal being made, the matter is referred by the valuation officer as an appeal by the proposer to the Valuation Tribunal for Wales.”
(5)
In the paragraph entitled Non-domestic rating multiplier, omit the words “and except in a revaluation year cannot rise by more than the rate of the increase in the retail prices index”.
(6)
In the paragraph entitled Transitional rate relief—
(a)
for “2016” substitute “2022”
;
(b)
omit the word “small”;
(c)
for “2017” substitute “2023”
.
The Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) Regulations 2017 (“the 2017 Regulations”) (S.I. 2017/113 (W. 39)) provide for the contents of non-domestic rates demand notices which are served by or on behalf of billing authorities in Wales.
Schedule 2 to the 2017 Regulations prescribes the information which must be included in the explanatory notes that must accompany a demand notice.
These Regulations amend Schedule 2 to the 2017 Regulations in consequence of the non-domestic rating revaluation which takes effect from 1 April 2023 and the prescribed rules for chargeable amounts which fall within the descriptions prescribed in the Non-Domestic Rating (Chargeable Amounts) (Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1350 (W. 272)).
The Welsh Ministers’ code of practice on the carrying out of regulatory impact assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. 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 these Regulations.