Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 2962

The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

(The document as of February, 2008)

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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

" SCHEDULE 4Article 2


ADULT 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"

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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).

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Notes:

[1] 1988 c. 41.back

[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.back

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ISBN 0 11 079937 2

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