Consultation on draft Non-Domestic Rating (Definition of Domestic Property) (Wales) Order 2022
Q1. Does the amending of subsection (2BB) altering reference to ‘70 days’ to now read ‘182 days’, used to define the period a property or aggregated property is required to be actually let, provide clarity? If not, how can it be improved?
Q2. Does the amending of subsection (2BB) altering reference to ‘140 days’ to now read ‘252 days’, used to define the period a property is required to be intended to be available to let and have been available to let provide clarity? If not, how can it be improved?
Q3. Does the wording in Article 3 provide clarity that properties assessed prior to 1 April 2023 are treated on the basis of meeting the current thresholds?
Q4. Are there any other issues regarding the practical application of the Draft Order?
Q5. Do you have any other comments about the drafting of the Draft Order?
Q6. The Welsh Government would like your views on the effects these proposals would have on the Welsh language, specifically on:
i. opportunities for people to use Welsh; and
ii. on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than English.
What effects do you think there would be? How could positive effects be increased, or negative effects be mitigated?
Q7. Please also explain how you believe the proposals could be formulated or changed
so as to have:
i. positive effects or increased positive effects on opportunities for people to use the Welsh language and on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language; and
ii. no adverse effects on opportunities for people to use the Welsh language and on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language.
Q8. We have asked a number of specific questions. If you have any related points which we have not specifically addressed, please use this space to record them.