Statutory Instruments with Clear Reports

12 December 2016

SL(5)040 – The Religious Character of Schools (Designation Procedure) (Wales) Regulations 2016

Procedure: Negative

These Regulations set out the procedure to be followed by the Welsh Ministers in making an order or orders designating voluntary schools as schools which have a religious character under section 69 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.

Religious character is not acquired or lost by virtue of being designated or not designated under the procedure set out in these Regulations. Designation is the recognition of a religious character which a school already has as a question of fact. Under the School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 a school must first close if it wishes to acquire or change religious character.

Parent Act: School Standards and Framework Act 1998

Date Made: 22 November 2016

Date Laid: 25 November 2016

Coming into force date: 1 January 2017

SL(5)041 – The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Procedure: Negative

These Regulations, which apply in relation to Wales, amend the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) Regulations 1992 (“the 1992 Regulations”).

Under Part II of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988, billing authorities (in Wales, county and county borough councils) are required to pay amounts (called non-domestic rating contributions) to the Welsh Ministers. The 1992 Regulations contain rules for the calculation of those contributions for Welsh billing authorities.

These Regulations amend the 1992 Regulations by substituting a new Schedule 4 (Adult Population Figures) for all the local authorities.

Parent Act: Local Government Finance Act 1988

Date Made: 30 November 2016

Date Laid: 5 December 2016

Coming into force date: 31 December 2016