Commentary on Sections Part 2 – Council Tax Section 19 – Reduced amounts
98.Section 19(2) of the Act amends section 13 of the 1992 Act by changing the Welsh Ministers’ power to make regulations which prescribe the conditions and circumstances in which a person is eligible for a council tax reduction in to a duty to make such regulations.
99.Section 19 also removes the Welsh Ministers’ power to make regulations under section 13A of the 1992 Act requiring that billing authorities make a council tax reduction scheme, and makes various consequential amendments – including the omission of Schedule 1B to the 1992 Act, which made further provision in relation to council tax reduction schemes pursuant to regulations under section 13A.
100.Section 19(6) amends section 66(2) of the 1992 Act, which lists matters within that Act that cannot be questioned except by judicial review, by adding to this list matters contained in regulations made under section 13.