The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

Made: 18 November 2025

Laid before Senedd Cymru: 20 November 2025

Coming into force: 31 December 2025

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred on them by paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988[^f00001].

Title, coming into force and application

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• (1) The title of these Regulations is the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2025.

• (2) These Regulations come into force on 31 December 2025.

• (3) These Regulations apply in relation to a financial year beginning with or after 1 April 2026.

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

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For Schedule 4 to the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992[^f00002] (adult population figures) substitute the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE

Signed

Mark Drakeford — Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language, one of the Welsh Ministers — 18 November 2025

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992 (“the 1992 Regulations”).

Under Part 2 of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (non-domestic rating: pooling), 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 these contributions for Welsh billing authorities.

These Regulations amend the 1992 Regulations by substituting a new Schedule 4 (adult population figures).

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.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 41. Paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 8 was amended by paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 10 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14) and paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 3 to the Local Government Finance Act 2012 (c. 17).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1992/3238; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1993/3077, 1994/3125, 1995/3235, 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), 2006/3347 (W. 307), 2007/3343 (W. 295), 2008/2929 (W. 258), 2009/3147 (W. 274), 2010/2889 (W. 239), 2011/2610 (W. 283), 2012/3036 (W. 310), 2013/3046 (W. 305), 2014/3193 (W. 323), 2015/1905 (W. 277), 2016/1169 (W. 286), 2017/1159 (W. 287), 2018/1196 (W. 244), 2019/1399 (W. 246), 2020/1366 (W. 302), 2021/1333 (W. 344), 2022/1214 (W. 251), 2023/1292 (W. 299) and 2024/1142 (W. 191).