The National Assembly for Wales makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 140(4) and 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 6 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988[1] and now vested in the National Assembly for Wales[2]. Citation, commencement and application 1. - (1) This Order may be cited as the Water Undertakers (Rateable Values) (Wales) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000. (2) This Order applies only in relation to Wales.
Interpretation
(b) U is the recalculation factor applicable to that class in respect of the relevant year ; and "year" ("blwyddyn") means a chargeable financial year.
(2) Any reference in this Order to a class of hereditaments occupied by a person includes a reference, in the case of unoccupied hereditaments, to hereditaments owned by that person, references to occupation being construed accordingly.
(b) the fraction shall be ignored if it would be 50p or less.
Revocations and savings
(b) any provision made by regulations made under section 58[6] of the Act (special provision for 1995 onwards) as to the chargeable amount as regards a hereditament for a relevant period as defined in that section.
Rateable values
(b) in any year beginning on or after 1st April 2001 shall (subject to article 10) be the amount produced in respect of that year by applying the standard formula in relation to that class.
Recalculation factor - interpretation
"Y" (subject to article 7(3)) is the relevant amount of water in relation to the period of three years ending on 31st March 1999; and "Z" is a number having the same value as "y" in the last foregoing year in relation to which the applicable recalculation factor for that class was determined in accordance with article 7(2); and
(b) "relevant amount of water" in relation to a relevant designated person and any period of three years means the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (2).
(2) The relevant amount of water in relation to a relevant designated person and any year is the annual average, over the three years being considered, expressed in megalitres to the nearest tenth part of a megalitre, of the amount estimated in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) less the amount estimated in accordance with sub-paragraph (b); that is to say -
(ii) otherwise, less half the estimated annual average amount of non-potable water so supplied otherwise than in bulk; less
(b) half the annual average amount estimated to have been taken or supplied in bulk during that period of three years.
Recalculation factors
(b) in any subsequent such year, shall be a figure equal to the recalculation factor applicable in accordance with this article in the relevant preceding year.
(2) Where in relation to any year, the value attributable to "y" in respect of a class of hereditaments is equal to or exceeds the upper threshold or is equal to or lower than the lower threshold, the recalculation factor applicable to that class in that year shall be the figure produced by calculating in accordance with the formula -
8. In relation to articles 9 and 10 - "Schedule 2 scheme"("cynllun Atodlen 2") means a scheme under Schedule 2 to the Water Industry Act 1991; "scheme hereditaments"("hereditamentau cynllun") means hereditaments transferred by a Schedule 2 scheme; "scheme transferee"("trosglwyddai cynllun") means a designated person which, in consequence of a Schedule 2 scheme, occupies a class of hereditaments which immediately before the day on which the scheme comes into force are occupied by another designated person; and "Welsh hereditaments"("hereditamentau Cymru") means such of the scheme hereditaments and any other hereditaments as are occupied by a scheme transferee and shown in the central rating list for Wales. Application 9. Article 10 applies for the purpose of determining, as regards any day on which, pursuant to the Central List Regulations, Welsh hereditaments occupied by a scheme transferee are shown in the central rating list, the rateable value (as a whole) of the Welsh hereditaments. Determination of Rateable Values 10. - (1) The rateable value (as a whole) of the Welsh hereditaments, shall be an amount equal to the aggregate of the amounts which, but for the Schedule 2 scheme, and subject to paragraph (2) below, would have been determined in accordance with article 5 as the rateable value of the hereditaments which constitute the Welsh hereditaments. (2) For the purposes of determining the recalculation factor applicable in a relevant year, article 7 shall apply as if, in calculating the amount assigned to Y or, in a case to which article 7(3) applies, the number assigned to Z, water supplied by or to the scheme transferee to or by another party to the Schedule 2 scheme were ignored. Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998[7] D. Elis Thomas The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly 31st January 2000 Y ( 102 ) 100 Y ( 98 ) 100 Dee Valley Water plc £1,798,244 D ![]() North West Water Limited £874,556 Severn Trent Water Limited £4,048,616 (This note is not part of the Order) Under paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 6 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988, the Secretary of State may by order provide in the case of non-domestic hereditaments to be shown in the central rating list for Wales that the normal rules of valuation for rating contained in paragraphs 2 to 2B of that Schedule are not to apply to such hereditaments. Instead their rateable values shall be such as are specified in the order or determined in accordance with prescribed rules. These powers are now vested in the National Assembly for Wales. Water supply hereditaments occupied (or, if unoccupied, owned) by water undertakers named in Part 6 of the Schedule to the Central Rating List (Wales) Regulations 1999 are required by those Regulations to be shown in the central rating list for Wales. This Order * provides that paragraphs 2 to 2B shall not apply in respect of such hereditaments, * prescribes values for those hereditaments for the financial year 2000/01 and * prescribes rules according to which their rateable values are to be determined in future years. Article 4(1) revokes, with effect from 1st April 2000, the Water Undertakers (Rateable Values) Order 1994 in so far as it is applicable to Wales. These provisions shall however, continue to have effect for the purposes mentioned in article 4(2). Notes: [1] 1988 c.41; section 143(2) is amended by paragraph 72(2) of Schedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c.42). Paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 6 is amended by paragraph 38(13) of Schedule 5 to the 1989 Act. See section 146(6) of the 1988 Act for the definition of "prescribed".back [2] See the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).back [6] Section 58 is amended by paragraph 68 of Schedule 13 to the Local Government Finance Act 1989 (c.14), section 2 of the Non-Domestic Rating Act 1994 (c.3) and section 1 of the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 (c.29).back
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