PART 6INTEREST

CHAPTER 3RATES OF INTEREST

I1163Rates of late payment interest and repayment interest

1

The late payment interest rate is the rate provided for in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers.

2

The repayment interest rate is the rate provided for in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers.

3

Regulations under subsection (1) or (2)—

a

may make different provision for different purposes;

b

may either themselves specify a rate of interest or make provision for a rate to be determined (and to change from time to time) by reference to a rate or an average of rates referred to in regulations;

c

may provide for rates to be reduced below, or increased above, what they would otherwise be by reference to specified amounts or specified formulae;

d

may provide for rates arrived at by reference to averages to be rounded up or down;

e

may provide for circumstances in which alteration of a rate of interest is or is not to take place;

f

may provide that alterations of rates are to have effect for periods beginning on or after a day determined in accordance with the regulations in relation to interest running from before that day as well as from or from after that day.