The Community Charges and Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) Regulations 1990

Explanatory notes explaining terminology used in the community charge demand notice (again in the appropriate language) are required to be supplied with the notice, and with a translation of the notice, (regulations 16 and 17, and Schedule 4).

Further information to accompany a community charge demand notice will, amongst other matters, provide particulars for each local authority as to how the call of the charging authority and its county council on the collection fund, together with their revenue support grant entitlement and non-domestic rates allocation, compare with their standard spending assessments determined by the Secretary of State for the purposes of grant distribution under the Welsh Revenue Support Grant Distribution Report (Schedule 6, Part I).

A rate demand notice may be in English or in Welsh or in both languages, with Welsh or English translations to be provided on request (regulation 14). A rate demand notice is required to contain particulars as to the hereditaments to which it relates (including their rateable values), a statement of the rating multiplier for the year, and particulars as to how the demand is affected by relevant rate reliefs (regulation 13 and Schedule 3). A rate demand notice must be accompanied by explanatory notes in the appropriate language (regulation 18 and Schedule 5). A rate demand notice must also be accompanied by certain of the further information (as mentioned above) which will accompany community charge demand notices (Schedule 6, Part II).

Where a community charge demand notice or rate demand notice is invalid because, due to a mistake, it is not in the prescribed form or fails to contain the prescribed matters, demands for payment under it will remain effective provided the payments were properly calculated (regulations 12 and 15). In such cases, the charging authority must take appropriate steps to rectify the error by issuing a correct form to the chargepayer or (as the case may be) by giving the ratepayer a correct statement of the relevant matters.

In order to enable a charging authority to supply the further information mentioned above when it serves its demand notices, the Regulations require the county council concerned to supply the charging authority with appropriate information (regulation 21). In this connection, regulation 22 makes appropriate transitional provision for the first financial year (the year 1990/91).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1967 c. 66.

[^f00002]: 1988 c. 41; relevant amendments were made by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraphs 11, 44 and 52 and by S.I. 1989/438, regulation 60.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1989/438; relevant amendments were made by S.I. 1989/2274.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1989/1058; relevant amendments were made by S.I. 1990/145.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1990/146.

[^f00006]: S.I. 1990/145.

[^f00007]: Schedule 12A was inserted by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraph 74.

[^f00008]: Section 69 was amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraph 50.

[^f00009]: S.I. 1989/2305.

[^f00010]: Section 74 was amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraph 53.

[^f00011]: Section 75 was amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraph 55.

[^f00012]: Section 13A was inserted by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraph 5.

[^f00013]: S.I. 1990/288.

[^f00014]: Sections 32, 34 and 35 were amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraphs 14, 16 and 17 respectively.

[^f00015]: Section 40 was amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraph 18.

[^f00016]: Section 45(1) was amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraph 23.

[^f00017]: Schedule 7A was inserted by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraph 40.

[^f00018]: Section 44A was inserted by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraph 22, and section 44 was amended by paragraph 21 of that Schedule.