# The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Default Scheme) (Wales) Regulations 2013, Paragraph 9: Non-dependants


(1) In this scheme, “non-dependant” (“annibynnydd”) means any person, except someone to whom sub-paragraph (2) applies, who normally resides with an applicant or with whom an applicant normally resides.
(2) This sub-paragraph applies to—
(a) any member of the applicant’s family;
(b) if the applicant is polygamously married, any partner of the applicant and any child or young person who is a member of the applicant’s household and for whom the applicant or one of the applicant’s partners is responsible;
(c) a child or young person who is living with the applicant but who is not a member of the applicant’s household by virtue of paragraph 8 (households);
(d) subject to sub-paragraph (3), any person who, with the applicant, is jointly and severally liable to pay council tax in respect of a dwelling for any day under sections 6 or 7 of the 1992 Act (persons liable to pay council tax);
(e) subject to sub-paragraph (3), any person who is liable to make payments on a commercial basis to the applicant or the applicant’s partner in respect of the occupation of the dwelling;
(f) a person who lives with the applicant in order to care for the applicant or a partner of the applicant, and who is engaged by a charitable or voluntary organisation which makes a charge to the applicant or the applicant’s partner for the services provided by that person.
(g) any person who has been granted leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom under or outside the immigration rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971 or has a right of abode in the United Kingdom, within the meaning of section 2 of that Act, where the person—
(i) was residing in Ukraine immediately before 1 January 2022;
(ii) left Ukraine in connection with the Russian invasion which took place on 24 February 2022; and
(iii) is residing with the applicant in connection with the Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme.
(3) Excepting persons to whom sub-paragraph 2(a) to (c), (f) and (g) refer, a person to whom any of the following paragraphs applies is a non-dependant—
(a) a person (P) who resides with the person (O) to whom P is liable to make payments in respect of the dwelling and either—
(i) O is a close relative of P’s or P’s partner; or
(ii) the tenancy or other agreement between them is other than on a commercial basis;
(b) a person whose liability to make payments in respect of the dwelling appears to the authority to have been created to take advantage of a council tax reduction scheme except someone who was, for any period within the eight weeks prior to the creation of the agreement giving rise to the liability to make such payments, otherwise liable to make payments of rent in respect of the same dwelling;
(c) a person who becomes jointly and severally liable with the applicant for council tax in respect of a dwelling and who was, at any time during the period of eight weeks prior to that person becoming so liable, a nondependent of one or more of the other residents in that dwelling who are so liable for the tax, unless the change giving rise to the new liability was not made to take advantage of a council tax reduction scheme.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2013/3035/schedule/paragraph/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-schemes-default-scheme-wales-regulations-2013/schedule/paragraph-9
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