{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-finance-act-1992/schedule-1A/paragraph-3n1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-finance-act-1992/schedule-1A/paragraph-3n1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/14",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Finance Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-finance-act-1992",
  "path": "schedule/1A/paragraph/3n1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The regulations may prescribe—\n(a) classes of person who are to be entitled to a reduction under schemes;\n(b) classes of person who must not be entitled to a reduction under schemes.\n(2) The regulations may—\n(a) allow specified authorities to determine (subject to regulations under sub-paragraph (1)) classes of person who are to be entitled to a reduction under schemes, or\n(b) provide that specified authorities may not determine such classes.\n(3) The regulations may require each scheme to state the classes of person (prescribed under sub-paragraph (1)(a) or determined under sub-paragraph (2)(a)) who are to be entitled to a reduction under the scheme.\n(4) Any class of person prescribed under sub-paragraph (1)(a) may be determined by reference to, in particular, the matters listed in sub-paragraph (7).\n(5) The regulations may require any class of person determined under sub-paragraph (2)(a) to be determined by reference to specified matters (which may include those listed in sub-paragraph (7)).\n(6) If the regulations do not require a class of person to be determined as mentioned in sub-paragraph (5), the specified authority may determine that class by reference to, in particular, the matters listed in sub-paragraph (7).\n(7) Those matters are—\n(a) whether the Welsh Ministers consider, or the specified authority considers, any person to be in financial need;\n(b) the income of any person liable to pay council tax in respect of any dwelling to which a scheme is to apply;\n(c) the capital of any such person;\n(d) whether any such person is in receipt of any specified benefit;\n(e) the income and capital of any other person who is a resident of the dwelling, or whether any such person is in receipt of any specified benefit;\n(f) the number of dependants of any person within paragraph (b) or (e);\n(g) whether the person has made an application for the reduction.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Schs. 1A, 1B inserted (31.10.2012) by Local Government Finance Act 2012 (c. 17), Sch. 4 para. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/14/schedule/1A/paragraph/3n1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:10.132114+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}