Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 297

The Local Authorities (Requisite Calculations) (Wales) (Prescribed Amounts) Regulations 1999

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1999 No. 297

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES
WALES
FINANCE

The Local Authorities (Requisite Calculations) (Wales) (Prescribed Amounts) Regulations 1999

	Made	16th February 1999
	Laid before Parliament	17th February 1999
	Coming into Force	18th February 1999

The Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 33(3C), 33(3D) and 113 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992[1] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, makes the following Regulations:-

Citation, commencement and interpretation
    1. - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities (Requisite Calculations) (Wales) (Prescribed Amounts) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 18th February 1999.

    (2) In these Regulations a reference to a numbered section is a reference to a section of the Local Government Finance Act 1992.

Prescribed proportion of council tax benefit
    2.For each local authority in Wales for the financial year beginning on 1st April 1999 the prescribed proportion of council tax benefit for the purpose of section 33(3C)[2] is the proportion specified for the authority in column 2 of the Table set out in the Schedule.

Prescribed guideline budget requirement
    3.For each local authority in Wales for the financial year beginning on 1st April 1999 the prescribed guideline budget requirement for the purpose of section 33(3D)[3] is the amount specified for the authority in column 3 of the Table set out in the Schedule.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales


Jon Owen Jones
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

16th February 1999



SCHEDULERegulations 2 and 3

1	2	3
(Authority)	(Proportion of council tax benefit)	(Guideline budget requirement)
Isle of Anglesey	0.178	£ 70,182,347
Gwynedd	0.162	£126,757,755
Conwy	0.148	£104,942,980
Denbighshire	0.166	£ 97,132,539
Flintshire	0.144	£140,736,864
Wrexham	0.177	£118,424,793
Powys	0.117	£134,058,810
Ceredigion	0.133	£ 75,814,821
Pembrokeshire	0.170	£116,898,774
Carmarthenshire	0.178	£177,863,408
Swansea	0.178	£226,745,667
Neath Port Talbot	0.178	£148,406,481
Bridgend	0.166	£131,014,185
The Vale of Glamorgan	0.125	£112,046,436
Rhondda, Cynon, Taff	0.178	£254,053,041
Merthyr Tydfil	0.178	£ 67,078,119
Caerphilly	0.178	£172,821,387
Blaenau Gwent	0.178	£ 79,402,314
Torfaen	0.178	£ 92,134,644
Monmouthshire	0.110	£ 75,353,160
Newport	0.178	£134,184,831
Cardiff	0.178	£299,029,009

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prescribe the proportion of council tax benefit and the guideline budget requirement for each local authority in Wales for the financial year beginning on 1st April 1999 for the purposes of sections 33(3C) and 33(3D) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992.

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Notes:

[1] 1992 c. 14; section 32(9) was amended by paragraph 4 of Schedule 12 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19).back

[2] Section 33(3C) was inserted by the Local Authorities (Alteration of Requisite Calculations) (Wales) Regulations 1999, (Statutory Instrument 1999/296).back

[3] Section 33(3D) was inserted by the Local Authorities (Alteration of Requisite Calculations) (Wales) Regulations 1999, (Statutory Instrument 1999/296).back

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