The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Made: 8 December 2004

Coming into force: 31 December 2004

The National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by sections 140(4) and 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988[^f00001], hereby make the following Regulations:

Name, commencement and application

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• (1) These Regulations are called the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 and come into force on 31 December 2004.

• (2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

Interpretation

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In these Regulations “the 1992 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 1992”) means the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992[^f00002].

Amendment of the 1992 Regulations

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In relation to financial years beginning on or after 1 April 2005, Schedules 2 and 4 to the 1992 Regulations are amended as follows:—

• (a) in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 for “0.998” there is substituted “1.009”; and

• (b) for Schedule 4 to the 1992 Regulations there is substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE

Signed

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998[^f00003]

D. Elis-Thomas — The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly — 8 December 2004

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Under Part II of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988[^f00004], billing authorities in Wales are required to pay amounts (called non-domestic rating contributions) to the National Assembly for Wales. Rules for the calculation of those amounts are contained in the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992[^f00005] (“the 1992 Regulations”).

These Regulations amend the 1992 Regulations by substituting a new multiplier in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 (Assumptions as to gross amount) and a new Schedule 4 (Adult Population Figures).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 41. The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 140(4) and 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988, are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1992/3238, amended by S.I. 1993/1505, 1993/3077, 1994/547, 1994/1742, 1994/3125, 1995/3235, 1996/619, 1996/3018, 1997/3003, 1998/2962, 1999/3439 (W.47), 2000/3382 (W.220), 2001/3910 (W.322), 2002/3054 (W.289) and 2003/3211 (W.304).

[^f00003]: 1998 c. 38.

[^f00004]: 1988 c. 41.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1992/3238