Welsh Statutory Instruments
Rating And Valuation, Wales
Made
12 January 2016
Laid before the National Assembly for Wales
18 January 2016
Coming into force
8 February 2016
1.-(1) The title of this Order is the Non-Domestic Rating (Small Business Relief) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2016.
(2) This Order comes into force on 8 February 2016 but it has effect from 1 April 2016.
(3) This Order applies in relation to Wales.
2. In article 3(1) of the Non-Domestic Rating (Small Business Relief) (Wales) Order 2015, for "31 March 2016" substitute "31 March 2017".
Edwina Hart
Minister for Economy, Science and Transport, one of the Welsh Ministers
12 January 2016
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Non-Domestic Rating (Small Business Relief) (Wales) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/229 (W. 11)) ("the 2015 Order"). The 2015 Order provides for a rate relief scheme and a temporary rate relief scheme which is to run from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016, and applies only to certain categories of hereditament.
Article 2 of this Order amends the 2015 Order by extending the period of time for which the temporary rate relief scheme is to apply to 31 March 2017.
The Welsh Ministers' Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to this Order. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with this Order.
1988 c. 41. Subsection (4B) of section 43 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 was inserted by section 61(1) and (3) of the Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26). Subsection (9)(b) of section 44 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 was inserted by section 61(5) of the Local Government Act 2003.
The functions of the National Assembly for Wales were vested in the Welsh Ministers by virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).