PART 2COUNCIL TAX

Changes to council tax payable

19Reduced amounts

(1)

The 1992 Act is amended as follows.

(2)

In section 13—

(a)

in subsection (1), after “may” insert “, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers must, in relation to Wales,”;

(b)

in subsection (3), for “12” substitute “11E, 11F”;

(c)

in subsection (4), after “thinks” insert “, or the Welsh Ministers think,”;

(d)

in subsection (7), after “thinks” insert “, or the Welsh Ministers think,”;

(e)

in subsection (8)—

(i)

in paragraph (a), after “billing authority” insert “in England”;

(ii)

after paragraph (b), insert—

“(ba)

provision requiring the Welsh Ministers to specify in a report, for the purposes of the regulations, an amount in relation to each billing authority in Wales;

(bb)

provision requiring the Welsh Ministers to lay that report before Senedd Cymru;”;

(f)

after subsection (10), insert—

“(11)

The Welsh Ministers may issue guidance about how a billing authority is to give effect to regulations made by them under this section.

(12)

A billing authority in Wales must have regard to guidance issued under subsection (11).”

(3)

In section 13A—

(a)

in subsection (1)—

(i)

omit paragraph (b);

(ii)

in paragraph (c), for “(b)” substitute “pursuant to regulations made by the Welsh Ministers under section 13”.

(b)

omit subsections (4), (5) and (8);

(c)

in subsection (9), omit “or regulations under subsection (4)”.

(4)

In section 32—

(a)

in subsection (3)(a), omit “its council tax reduction scheme,”;

(b)

in subsection (12), omit paragraph (c).

(5)

In section 33—

(a)

in subsection (1), in the definition of “P”, omit “its council tax reductions scheme,”;

(b)

in subsection (1A), omit sub-paragraph (iii).

(6)

In section 66, in subsection (2), after paragraph (b), insert—

“(bza)

a matter prescribed, or provided for, in accordance with subsections (1) or (2) of section 13, in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers under that section;”.

(7)

Omit Schedule 1B.