Statutory Instruments with Clear Reports
21 March 2022
SL(6)170
– The Council Tax (Joint and Several Liability of Care
Leavers) (Wales) Regulations 2022
Procedure: Made Negative
These
Regulations amend the Local Government
Finance Act 1992 to remove eligible care leavers aged 24 and under
from joint and several liability for the payment of council tax in
relation to chargeable dwellings in Wales.
Where care leavers are living
with a spouse or partner or in households with more than one adult,
all of the adults may be held jointly and severally liable for the
council tax bill on their home. Therefore a care leaver could
be held liable for payment of council tax where another person (who
is not exempt) fails to pay their council tax. Local
authorities have discretionary powers to offer reductions on
council tax bills and some have used these powers to exempt care
leavers from liability.
These Regulations will have the
effect of reducing the council tax liability for eligible care
leavers to nil.
Parent
Act: The Local
Government Finance Act 1992
Date
Made: 01 March
2022
Date
Laid: 04 March
2022
Coming into force
date: 01 April
2022
Statutory Instruments with Clear Reports
21 March 2022
SL(6)171
– The Menai Strait (East) Mussel and Oyster Fishery Order
2022
Procedure: Made Negative
This
Order confers on the Menai Strait
Fishery Order Management Association (“the Grantee”) a
right of several fishery and a right of regulating a fishery for
prescribed species of shellfish. The effect of granting a right of
several fishery is that the Grantee is given the exclusive right of
depositing, propagating, dredging, fishing for and taking those
shellfish. The prescribed species are mussels and
oysters.
The rights subsist over an area
of approximately 694 hectares of the foreshore and bed of the Menai
Strait in the counties of Gwynedd and Anglesey as specified in the
Schedule to the Order and as indicated in the map below.
The right of several fishery
and the right of regulating a fishery are conferred on the Grantee
for a period of 35 years commencing on 2 April 2022. This is
intended to provide a secure basis for aquaculture.
Parent
Act: Sea Fisheries
(Shellfish) Act 1967
Date
Made: 03 March
2022
Date
Laid: 04 March
2022
Coming into force
date: 02 April
2022
Statutory Instruments with Clear Reports
21 March 2022
SL(6)179
– The National Health Service Trusts (Membership and
Procedure) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2022
Procedure: Made Negative
These
Regulations make amendments to legislation
concerning the membership and procedures of NHS Trusts.
They make provision for the
role of a statutory vice-chair on the boards of directors of NHS
Trusts in Wales as an additional non-executive director post,
including with respect to their tenure of office (including
termination and suspension), appointment, disqualification for
appointment, eligibility for reappointment and their powers and
role in the proceedings and committees of NHS Trusts.
These Regulations also make
provision providing for a decrease in the maximum permitted number
of non-executive directors (excluding the chair and vice-chair)
from 7 to 6 in consequence of the addition of the statutory
vice-chair post. They also increase the maximum permitted number of
executive directors of NHS Trusts from 5 to 6 (including the Chief
Executive).
Parent
Act: National Health
Service (Wales) Act 2006
Date
Made: 08 March
2022
Date
Laid: 11 March
2022
Coming into force
date: 01 April
2022
Statutory Instruments with Clear Reports
21 March 2022
SL(6)174
– The Local Authorities (Amendments Relating to Publication
of Information) (Wales) Regulations 2022
Procedure: Affirmative
Regulation 12 of the Local
Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Decisions, Documents and
Meetings) (Wales) Regulations 2001 (“the 2001
Regulations”) places a duty on county and county borough
councils to maintain a register stating the name and address of
every member of their executive and of every member of a committee
of the executive. The 2001 Regulations require the register to be
open to inspection by the public at the principal office of the
authority.
In order to provide a safe
environment for those prepared to put themselves forward for
elected office, one of the steps identified to achieve that aim is
to remove the requirement for members’ addresses to be
included as part of the register that must be open to inspection by
the public.
These
regulations make the necessary amendments
to provide that the information open to inspection must not include
a member’s address included in the
registers.
Parent
Act: Local Government
and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 / Local Government Act
2000
Date
Made:
Date
Laid:
Coming into force
date: 05 May
2022