The Council Tax (Demand Notices) (Wales)(Amendment) Regulations 2014

PART 1 General

Title, commencement and application

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Council Tax (Demand Notices) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 14 February 2014 and apply in relation to Wales.

PART 2 Amendments

Amendment of Regulations

2.  The Council Tax (Demand Notices) (Wales) Regulations 1993(1) are amended in accordance with regulation 3.

3.  In Schedule 1 (matters to be contained in demand notices) in paragraph 8A—

(a) for sub-paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a) the reasons for the reduction and its amount;”;

(b) for sub-paragraph (b)(i) substitute—

“(i) informing the person affected of the duty imposed by paragraph 113(1) of the scheme prescribed by the Schedule to the Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Default Scheme) (Wales) Regulations 2013(2) or contained in the authority’s scheme by virtue of paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 13 to the Council Tax Reduction Schemes and Prescribed Requirements (Wales) Regulations 2013(3), as the case may be;”.

PART 3 Savings

Interpretation

4.  In this part of the Regulations—

“1993 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 1993”) _means the Council Tax (Demand Notices) (Wales) 1993;

“2012 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 2012”) means the Council Tax Reduction Schemes and Prescribed Requirements (Wales) Regulations 2012 (4);

“2013 scheme” (“cynllun 2013”) means a scheme made by a billing authority in accordance with the 2012 Regulations or which applies in default on 1 April 2013 in accordance with paragraph 6(1)(e) of Schedule 1B to the Local Government Finance Act 1992.

Saving Provision

5.  The amendments made to the 1993 Regulations by regulation 3 do not have effect in relation to any applications made or reductions awarded in accordance with the provisions of a 2013 scheme.

Lesley Griffiths

Minister for Local Government and Government Business , one of the Welsh Ministers

22 January 2014