Council Tax (Additional Provisions for Discount Disregards) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2007

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 581 (W. 53)

COUNCIL TAX, WALES

Council Tax (Additional Provisions for Discount Disregards) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2007

Made

27 February 2007

Coming into force

1 April 2007

The National Assembly for Wales, makes the following Regulations, in exercise of the powers conferred upon the Secretary of State by section 116(1) of, and paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992(1) and now vested in the National Assembly for Wales so far as exercisable in relation to Wales(2):

Title, commencement, and application

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Council Tax (Additional Provisions for Discount Disregards) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2007 and they come into force on 1 April 2007.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

Care workers' weekly remuneration

2.  In paragraph 1(c) of the Schedule to the Council Tax (Additional Provisions for Discount Disregards) Regulations 1992(3) for “£36”(4) substitute “£44”.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(5)

D. Elis-Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

27 February 2007

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Council Tax (Additional Provisions for Discount Disregards) Regulations 1992 provide for the conditions to be fulfilled where a care worker is to be disregarded for the purposes of a discount, which has the effect of reducing the amount of council tax payable in respect of a dwelling in which the care worker is resident. One of those conditions is that the care worker is paid no more than a specified weekly amount. Regulation 2 of these Regulations raises this amount from £36 to £44.

A regulatory appraisal has been carried out in connection with these Regulations and is available from the Local Government Finance Division, Department for Local Government and Culture, National Assembly for Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ (telephone [phone]).

(1)

1992 c. 14.

(2)

The power to make regulations under section 116(1) of, and paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 in relation to Wales transferred from the Secretary of State to the National Assembly for Wales under article 2(a) of, and Schedule 1, to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).

(3)

S.I. 1992/552.

(4)

Inserted by S.I.1998/294.

(5)

1998 c. 38