The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Made: 23 November 2007

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales: 26 November 2007

Coming into force: 27 December 2007

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 60, 140(4) and 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988[^f00001].

Title, commencement and application

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• (1) The title of these Regulations is the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 and they come into force on 27 December 2007.

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

Amendment to the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992

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• (1) The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992[^f00002] are amended as follows in relation to financial years beginning on or after 1 April 2007.

• (2) In paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2, for “1.001” there is substituted “1.002”.

• (3) For schedule 4 there is substituted the schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE 4

Signed

Brian Gibbons — Minister for Social Justice and Local Government, one of the Welsh Ministers — 23 November 2007

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which apply in relation to Wales, amend the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992 (“the 1992 Regulations”).

Under Part II of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 billing authorities (in Wales, county and county borough councils) are required to pay amounts (called non-domestic rating contributions) to the Welsh Ministers. The 1992 Regulations contain rules for the calculation of those contributions for Welsh billing authorities.

These Regulations amend the 1992 Regulations by —

• substituting a new multiplier in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 (Assumptions as to gross amount); and

• substituting a new Schedule 4 (Adult Population Figures).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 41. These powers were devolved, 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 Local Government Finance Act 1988 in Schedule 1. By virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32) those functions are exercisable by the Welsh Ministers.

[^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), 2003/3211 (W.304), 2004/3232 (W.280), 2005/3345 (W.259) and 2006/3347 (W.307).