The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/3003
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 31st December 1997.

(2) In these Regulations “the 1992 Regulations ” means the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992 .

Section 2 Amendment of the 1992 Regulations

Schedules 1, 2 and 4 to the 1992 Regulations are amended as follows.

Section 3 Deductions from gross amount: county schools

(1) In paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the 1992 Regulations, after sub-paragraph (1), there is inserted—

(1A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above there shall be ignored any determination in so far as it is made in respect of the occupation of a hereditament for the purposes of a county school (within the meaning of section 31(1) of the Education Act 1996).

(2) Paragraph (1) applies to a determination in so far as it is made in respect of a day in a financial year beginning on or after 1st April 1998.

Section 4 Assumptions relating to provisional amounts

In relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 1998—

(a) in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations, for “0.962” there is substituted “0.996”;

(b) in paragraph 8(1) of that Schedule, for “1.4 per cent.” there shall be substituted “1.1 per cent.”; and

(c) for Schedule 4 to the 1992 Regulations there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.