Revisions to and replacement of schemes
18.—(1) For each financial year, an authority must consider whether to revise its scheme or to replace it with another scheme.
(2) An authority must make any revision to its scheme, or any replacement scheme, no later than 31 January in the financial year preceding that for which the revision or replacement scheme is to have effect.
(3) If any revision to a scheme, or any replacement scheme, has the effect of reducing or removing a reduction to which any class of persons is entitled, the revision or replacement scheme must include such transitional provision relating to that reduction or removal as the authority thinks fit.
(4) Regulation 17 applies to an authority when revising a scheme as it applies to an authority when making a scheme.
(5) References in this Part to a scheme include a replacement scheme.