# Local Government Finance Act 1992, Paragraph 6


(1) The regulations may—
(a) require other matters to be included in schemes;
(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;
(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);
(d) require or allow functions conferred by the regulations to be exercised by specified authorities jointly with other authorities;
(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;
(f) impose requirements on specified authorities relating to the review, revision or replacement of schemes;
(g) enable specified authorities to make reasonable charges for the supply of copies of documents relating to schemes;
(h) require specified authorities to provide to the Welsh Ministers information about schemes.
(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—
(a) provision made by a relevant enactment, or
(b) provision that is capable of being made under a relevant enactment,
with such modifications as the Welsh Ministers think fit.
(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”—
(a) sections 131 to 133 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (council tax benefit);
(b) sections 134 to 137 of that Act (general provisions about income-related benefits) so far as applying in relation to council tax benefit;
(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;
(d) section 6 of that Act (regulations about council tax benefit administration);
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/14/schedule/1A/paragraph/6n1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-finance-act-1992/schedule-1A/paragraph-6n1
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