The Non-Domestic Rating (Heat Networks Relief) (Wales) Regulations 2024
| Year | 2024 |
2024 No. 38 (W. 13)
Rating And Valuation, Wales
The Non-Domestic Rating (Heat Networks Relief) (Wales) Regulations 2024
Made 15th January 2024
Laid before Senedd Cymru 17th January 2024
Coming into force 1st April 2024
The Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on them by paragraph 6(1)(b) and (2) of Schedule 4ZA to the Local Government Finance Act 19881.
Title, coming into force and interpretation
1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Non-Domestic Rating (Heat Networks Relief) (Wales) Regulations 2024.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 1 April 2024.
(3) In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988.
Meaning of heat network
2. For the purposes of paragraph 6 of Schedule 4ZA to the Act, and for the purposes of regulation 3 of these Regulations, “heat network” means a facility which supplies thermal energy from a central source for the purposes of—
(a) space heating,
(b) space cooling, or
(c) heating domestic water.
Conditions for relief
3.—(1) The conditions to be satisfied for the purposes of paragraph 6(1)(b) of Schedule 4ZA to the Act are that, for the period of 12 months beginning with the chargeable day concerned, it appears to the billing authority in whose area the heat network is situated that the thermal energy supplied by the heat network will be generated from a low-carbon source.
(2) The low-carbon source may be located on the hereditament concerned or on a different hereditament.
(3) In this regulation—
“billing authority” (“awdurdod bilioawdurdod bilio”) has the meaning given by section 144(2) of the Act;
“chargeable day” (“diwrnod y codir swm ynglŷn ag efdiwrnod y codir swm ynglŷn ag ef”) has the meaning given by section 43(3) of the Act;
“cogenerated heat” (“gwres a gydgynhyrchirgwres a gydgynhyrchir”) is thermal energy which is produced in the same process and at the same time as electrical or mechanical energy;
“low-carbon source” (“ffynhonnell garbon iselffynhonnell garbon isel”) is a source which generates thermal energy, of which at least—
(a) 75% is cogenerated heat,
(b) 50% is renewable heat,
(c) 50% is waste heat, or
(d) 75% is a combination of renewable, waste or cogenerated heat;
“renewable heat” (“gwres adnewyddadwygwres adnewyddadwy”) is thermal energy generated by excepted renewables plant and machinery, as defined in...
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