{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-finance-act-1992/schedule-1A/paragraph-6n1",
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  "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/6n1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The regulations may—\n(a) require other matters to be included in schemes;\n(b) allow schemes to make provision that is equivalent to provision made by a relevant enactment, or provision that is capable of being made under a relevant enactment, with such modifications as specified authorities think fit;\n(c) prescribe the procedure which a specified authority must follow when making a scheme (including requirements regarding consultation and other steps to be taken before and after making the scheme);\n(d) require or allow functions conferred by the regulations to be exercised by specified authorities jointly with other authorities;\n(e) prescribe a default scheme which is to take effect, if a specified authority fails to make a scheme in accordance with the regulations, in respect of dwellings to which that scheme would have applied;\n(f) impose requirements on specified authorities relating to the review, revision or replacement of schemes;\n(g) enable specified authorities to make reasonable charges for the supply of copies of documents relating to schemes;\n(h) require specified authorities to provide to the Welsh Ministers information about schemes.\n(2) In particular, the regulations may under sub-paragraph (1)(a) set out provision to be included in schemes, and a default scheme prescribed under sub-paragraph (1)(e) may make provision, that is equivalent to—\n(a) provision made by a relevant enactment, or\n(b) provision that is capable of being made under a relevant enactment,\nwith such modifications as the Welsh Ministers think fit.\n(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (1)(b) and (2), each of the following enactments as it had effect on the day on which the Local Government Finance Act 2012 was passed is a “relevant enactment”—\n(a) sections 131 to 133 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (council tax benefit);\n(b) sections 134 to 137 of that Act (general provisions about income-related benefits) so far as applying in relation to council tax benefit;\n(c) section 1 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (entitlement to benefit dependent on claim) so far as applying in relation to council tax benefit;\n(d) section 6 of that Act (regulations about council tax benefit administration);\n(e) sections 32 to 34 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (benefit for persons taking up employment) so far as applying in relation to council tax benefit.",
  "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/6n1",
    "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."
}