The Community Charges and Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1992

Made: 26th June 1992

Laid before Parliament: 29th June 1992

Coming into force: 16th July 1992

The Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 2(2) of the Welsh Language Act 1967[^f00001], sections 140(4), 143(1) and (2) and 146(6) of, and paragraphs 1 and 2(2)(h) of Schedule 9 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988[^f00002], section 7 of the Non-Domestic Rating Act 1992[^f00003], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Community Charges and Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 16th July 1992.

• (2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Community Charges and Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) Regulations 1990[^f00004].

• (3) Expressions used in these Regulations which are also used in the principal Regulations shall have the same meaning as in those Regulations.

Application of Regulations

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• (1) These Regulations apply in relation to rate demand notices issued by a Welsh charging authority[^f00005] which—

• (a) relate to the chargeable financial year beginning on 1st April 1992, and

• (b) are issued on or after the day on which sections 1 to 3 of the Non-Domestic Rating Act 1992 come into force.

• (2) The principal Regulations shall have effect in relation to rate demand notices to which these Regulations apply, with the amendment prescribed in regulation 3.

Amendment of Regulations

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For Schedule 5 to the principal Regulations there are substituted the words set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE

Signed

David Hunt — Secretary of State for Wales — 26th June 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Community Charges and Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) Regulations 1990.

The Regulations are consequential on the Non-Domestic Rating Act 1992 ( “the 1992 Act”). Section 1 of that Act provides for the removal, from 11th March 1992, of the condition that properties will only remain subject to the limit on rate increases under the non-domestic rating transitional arrangements if the owner or occupier does not change. Sections 2 and 3 of that Act provide for the freezing in real terms in 1992/93 of rate increases for those moving to higher rate bills under the transitional arrangements; and for an increase in real terms in 1992/93 of the amount by which rate bills for those benefitting from lower bills can go down.

The effect of the amendments made by these Regulations, which apply in relation to rate demand notices for the financial year 1992/93 issued after the coming into force of sections 1 to 3 of the 1992 Act, is to require each Welsh charging authority to supply with its rate demand notices, explanatory information which takes account of the changes to the transitional arrangements made by the 1992 Act.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1967 c. 66.

[^f00002]: 1988 c. 41. Relevant amendment made by paragraph 44(3) of Schedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42).

[^f00003]: 1992 c. 46.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1990/293, amended by S.I. 1990/608, 1991/118, 434 and 877, and 1992/96 and 935.

[^f00005]: See section 144(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988.