# The Community Charges and Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) Regulations 1990, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations provide for the form and contents of community charge demand notices, and for the contents of rate demand notices, which are issued by charging authorities (district councils) in Wales, and for the information to be supplied when such notices are served by them.
English, Welsh and bilingual (Welsh and English) forms are prescribed for personal community charge demand notices and standard community charge demand notices (Schedule 1); and the matters required to be included in the notices (Schedule 2) are also prescribed for inclusion in the appropriate language (regulations 3 and 6). Bilingual forms are to be used unless the charging authority resolves otherwise (regulations 4 and 7). Where English only or Welsh only forms are used, a charging authority must provide a translation in the other language on request (regulations 5 and 8).
The Regulations require a community charge demand notice to set out how the amount payable under it is arrived at (regulations 3 and 6, and Schedule 2).
Explanatory notes explaining terminology used in the community charge demand notice (again in the appropriate language) are required to be supplied with the notice, and with a translation of the notice, (regulations 16 and 17, and Schedule 4).
Further information to accompany a community charge demand notice will, amongst other matters, provide particulars for each local authority as to how the call of the charging authority and its county council on the collection fund, together with their revenue support grant entitlement and non-domestic rates allocation, compare with their standard spending assessments determined by the Secretary of State for the purposes of grant distribution under the Welsh Revenue Support Grant Distribution Report (Schedule 6, Part I).
A rate demand notice may be in English or in Welsh or in both languages, with Welsh or English translations to be provided on request (regulation 14). A rate demand notice is required to contain particulars as to the hereditaments to which it relates (including their rateable values), a statement of the rating multiplier for the year, and particulars as to how the demand is affected by relevant rate reliefs (regulation 13 and Schedule 3). A rate demand notice must be accompanied by explanatory notes in the appropriate language (regulation 18 and Schedule 5). A rate demand notice must also be accompanied by certain of the further information (as mentioned above) which will accompany community charge demand notices (Schedule 6, Part II).
Where a community charge demand notice or rate demand notice is invalid because, due to a mistake, it is not in the prescribed form or fails to contain the prescribed matters, demands for payment under it will remain effective provided the payments were properly calculated (regulations 12 and 15). In such cases, the charging authority must take appropriate steps to rectify the error by issuing a correct form to the chargepayer or (as the case may be) by giving the ratepayer a correct statement of the relevant matters.
In order to enable a charging authority to supply the further information mentioned above when it serves its demand notices, the Regulations require the county council concerned to supply the charging authority with appropriate information (regulation 21). In this connection, regulation 22 makes appropriate transitional provision for the first financial year (the year 1990/91).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/293/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-and-non-domestic-rating-demand-notices-wales-regulations-1990/note
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