# The Non–Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1993

S.I. 1993/3077 · made 9 December 1993

Under Part II of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988, billing authorities (in Wales, district councils) are required to pay amounts (called non–domestic rating contributions) to the Secretary of State. Payments in respect of a provisional amount of the contributions are made during the financial year, final calculations and payments being made after the year ends.

Made under: Local Government Finance Act 1988 (Section 140, Section 143, Schedule 8 paragraph 4, Schedule 8 paragraph 6); Non-Domestic Rating Act 1993 (Section 4)

## Introductory text

RATING AND VALUATION
Made 9th December 1993
Laid before Parliament 13th December 1993
Coming into force 31st December 1993
The Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 140(4) and 143 of, and paragraphs 4(1) and (5) and 6(2), (2A), (5) and (6) of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 and section 4 of the Non–Domestic Rating Act 1993, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

## 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Non–Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 31st December 1993.

## 2 Amendments having effect for 1993/94

The Non–Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992 shall have effect in relation to any calculation of an authority’s non–domestic rating contribution for the financial year beginning on 1st April 1993 made on or after the coming into force of these Regulations with the following amendments—
(a) in sub–paragraph (1) of paragraph 4A of Schedule 1, there shall be inserted at the end of the formula “+K”, and at the end of the sub–paragraph there shall be added the following definition—
“K is the amount of the reasonable costs, if any, necessarily incurred by the authority in respect of changes to any of their computer programs so as to give effect to the provisions of the 1993 Act, provided that if the amount of such costs exceeds £4,000, K is £4,000.”; and
(b) in paragraphs 2(3) and 4(3) of Schedule 3, there shall be inserted at the end of the definitions of “T” and “W” respectively the following words “and assuming, in the case of paragraph 4A, that K in the formula in that paragraph will be nil;”.

## 3 Amendments having effect as from 1994/95

The Non–Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992 shall have effect in relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 1994 with the following amendments—
(a) in Part I of Schedule 2,
(i) in paragraph 2(12) for “0.94” there shall be substituted “0.91”; and
(ii) in paragraph 8(1) for “1.6” there shall be substituted “1.85”;
(b) for Part II of Schedule 2 there shall be substituted the following Part—
“PART II
prescribed amounts in respect of enterprise zones
Name of billing authority
Prescribed amount
Preseli Pembrokeshire District Council
£427,000
South Pembrokeshire District Council
£745,000
Swansea City Council
£15,000
”;
(c) in paragraph 2 of Part I of Schedule 3, for sub–paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following sub–paragraph—
“(3) The amount described in paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 shall be replaced by the amount calculated in accordance with the formula—
T×UV where—
T is the amount calculated in relation to the billing authority for the year in accordance with paragraph 4 of Schedule 1;
U is the number of relevant days preceding the day on which the calculations in accordance with this Schedule are made;
V is the number of days in the year for which the calculations in accordance with this Schedule are made. ”; and
(d) in paragraph 4 of Part II of Schedule 3,
(i) for sub–paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following sub– paragraph—
“(3) The amount described in paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 shall be replaced by the amount calculated in accordance with the formula—
T×YV where—
T and V have the same meaning as in paragraph 2(3) above;
Y is the number of relevant days on and after the day on which the calculations in accordance with this Schedule are made. ”; and
(ii) at the end there shall be added the following sub–paragraph—
“(6) The assumption prescribed in paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 shall not apply in the case of any reduction or remission which, on or before the day on which the calculations in accordance with this Schedule are made, the authority has decided to grant.”;
(e) for Schedule 4 there shall be substituted the following Schedule—
“SCHEDULE 4
ADULT POPULATION FIGURES
Regulation 6
Billing authority area
Prescribed figure
Aberconwy
43,300
Alyn and Deeside
56,900
Arfon
43,300
Blaenau Gwent
58,900
Brecknock
32,300
Cardiff
227,200
Carmarthen
44,000
Ceredigion
54,000
Colwyn
44,700
Cynon Valley
49,800
Delyn
53,400
Dinefwr
30,400
Dwyfor
21,800
Glyndwr
32,700
Islwyn
51,500
Llanelli
58,300
Lliw Valley
49,100
Meirionnydd
25,900
Merthyr Tydfil
45,100
Monmouth
59,500
Montgomeryshire
41,800
Neath
51,400
Newport
104,200
Ogwr
103,200
Port Talbot
39,400
Preseli Pembrokeshire
54,500
Radnorshire
18,900
Rhondda
60,700
Rhuddlan
43,000
Rhymney Valley
77,200
South Pembrokeshire
32,800
Swansea
147,800
Taff Ely
76,000
Torfaen
69,300
Vale of Glamorgan
87,200
Wrexham Maelor
89,500
Ynys Mo*n — Isle of Anglesey
53,100
”

## Signature

John Redwood
Secretary of State for Wales
9th December 1993

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of these Regulations)
Under Part II of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988, billing authorities (in Wales, district councils) are required to pay amounts (called non–domestic rating contributions) to the Secretary of State. Payments in respect of a provisional amount of the contributions are made during the financial year, final calculations and payments being made after the year ends.
These Regulations amend the rules for the calculation of contributions contained in the Non–Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992. Regulation 2 amends the rules for the financial year 1993/94, by providing for an allowance to be made for certain computer costs. Regulation 3 makes various technical amendments to the rules for financial years beginning with 1994/95.

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