The Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2013

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2013 No. 62 (W.13)

COUNCIL TAX, WALES

The Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2013

Made

17 January 2013

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

17 January 2013

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2)

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred upon the Secretary of State by sections 113(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 1(1), 2(2), (4)(a), (ia) and (j), 4 to 6, 8 to 10 and 16 of Schedule 2 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1992(1) and now vested in them(2).

(1)

1992 c. 14. See section 116(1) for the definition of “prescribed”. Relevant amendments were made by sections 10 (council tax reduction schemes), 12 (power to set higher amount for long-term empty dwellings), 16 (provision of information about council tax) and 17 (power for HMRC to supply information for purposes of council tax) of the Local Government Finance Act 2012 (c. 17). Paragraph 21 of Schedule 2 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 was inserted by the Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26) section 127(1) and Schedule 7, paragraphs 40, 53(1) and (3).

(2)

Functions of the Secretary of State, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), article 2 and Schedule 1. Those functions were subsequently transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).