Title, commencement, application and revocation
1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Default Scheme) (Wales) Regulations 2013.
(2) These Regulations come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.
(3) These Regulations apply in relation to billing authorities in Wales, and the first financial year to which the scheme set out in the Schedule to these Regulations relates is the year beginning 1 April 2014.
(4) The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Default Scheme) (Wales) Regulations 2012(1) are revoked.
Default scheme
2. The scheme set out in the Schedule to these Regulations is the scheme prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 6 of Schedule 1B to the Local Government Finance Act 1992.
Lesley Griffiths
Minister for Local Government and Government Business, one of the Welsh Ministers
27 November 2013