12.—(1) Each authority in Wales must make a scheme specifying the reductions which are to apply to the amounts of council tax payable by persons to whom the scheme applies in respect of dwellings situated in its area.
(2) The function of making a scheme required by these Regulations is not to be the responsibility of an executive of an authority under executive arrangements.
(3) Section 101 of the Local Government Act 1972(1) (arrangements for discharge of functions by local authorities) does not apply with respect to the discharge of the function mentioned in paragraph (1).
(4) In this regulation, references to “executive” (“gweithrediaeth”) and “executive arrangements” (“trefniadau gweithredol”) have the same meaning given by Part 2 of the Local Government Act 2000(2) or an instrument made under that Part of that Act.