The Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Rate Relief) (Wales) Order 2002
Each county and county borough council in Wales (“billing authority”) is required by section 42A of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (“the Act”) to compile and maintain for each chargeable financial year a list (“rural settlement list”) which identifies settlements which are wholly or partly within the authority’s area, appear to the authority to have had a population of not more than 3,000 on the 31st December immediately preceding the beginning of the chargeable financial year in question and are in that financial year wholly or partly within an area designated by order as a rural area for the purposes of the section.