Statutory Instruments
1998 No. 2962

RATING AND VALUATION
WALES
The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Made
25th November 1998

Laid before Parliament
7th December 1998

Coming into force
31st December 1998

The Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 140(4), 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 31st December 1998.

(2) In these Regulations “the 1992 Regulations” means the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992(2).

Amendment of the 1992 Regulations

2.  In relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 1999, Schedules 2 and 4 to the 1992 Regulations are amended as follows:–

(a)in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations, for “0.996” there shall be substituted “0.999”;

(b)in paragraph 8(1) of that Schedule, for “1.1 per cent” there shall be substituted “1.2 per cent”;

(c)for Schedule 4 to the 1992 Regulations there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jon Owen Jones
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
25th November 1998

SCHEDULE

Article 2

“SCHEDULE 4ADULT POPULATION FIGURES



Billing authority area
Prescribed figure

Blaenau Gwent
55,300

Bridgend
100,200

Caerphilly
126,900

Carmarthenshire
132,500

Cardiff
241,600

Ceredigion
56,400

Conwy
88,300

Denbighshire
70,300

Flintshire
111,800

Gwynedd
91,900

Isle of Anglesey
50,700

Merthyr Tydfil
42,500

Monmouthshire
67,800

Neath Port Talbot
107,300

Newport
103,200

Pembrokeshire
87,000

Powys
97,900

Rhondda, Cynon, Taff
184,200

Swansea
179,200

Torfaen
68,200

Vale of Glamorgan (The)
90,500

Wrexham
95,900”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations apply to Wales.
They amend the rules contained in the Non-Domestic Rating Contribution (Wales) Regulations 1992 for calculating the contributions to be made by billing authorities by substituting a new multiplier in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 (assumptions as to gross amount); a new percentage figure in paragraph 8(1) of that Schedule, and a new Schedule 4 (adult population figures).


(1)
1988 c. 41.

(2)
S.I. 1992/3238, amended by S.I. 1993/1505, 1993/3077, 1994/547, 1994/1742, 1994/3125, 1995/3235, 1996/3018 and 1997/3003.