{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-finance-wales-act-2024/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-finance-wales-act-2024/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2024/6",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Finance (Wales) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-finance-wales-act-2024",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Reduced amounts",
  "text": "(1) The 1992 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 13—\n(a) in subsection (1), after “may” insert “, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers must, in relation to Wales,”;\n(b) in subsection (3), for “12” substitute “11E, 11F”;\n(c) in subsection (4), after “thinks” insert “, or the Welsh Ministers think,”;\n(d) in subsection (7), after “thinks” insert “, or the Welsh Ministers think,”;\n(e) in subsection (8)—\n(i) in paragraph (a), after “billing authority” insert “in England”;\n(ii) after paragraph (b), insert—\n“(ba) provision requiring the Welsh Ministers to specify in a report, for the purposes of the regulations, an amount in relation to each billing authority in Wales;\n(bb) provision requiring the Welsh Ministers to lay that report before Senedd Cymru;”;\n(f) after subsection (10), insert—\n“(11) The Welsh Ministers may issue guidance about how a billing authority is to give effect to regulations made by them under this section.\n(12) A billing authority in Wales must have regard to guidance issued under subsection (11).”\n(3) In section 13A—\n(a) in subsection (1)—\n(i) omit paragraph (b);\n(ii) in paragraph (c), for “(b)” substitute “pursuant to regulations made by the Welsh Ministers under section 13”.\n(b) omit subsections (4), (5) and (8);\n(c) in subsection (9), omit “or regulations under subsection (4)”.\n(4) In section 32—\n(a) in subsection (3)(a), omit “its council tax reduction scheme,”;\n(b) in subsection (12), omit paragraph (c).\n(5) In section 33—\n(a) in subsection (1), in the definition of “P”, omit “its council tax reductions scheme,”;\n(b) in subsection (1A), omit sub-paragraph (iii).\n(6) In section 66, in subsection (2), after paragraph (b), insert—\n“(bza) a matter prescribed, or provided for, in accordance with subsections (1) or (2) of section 13, in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers under that section;”.\n(7) Omit Schedule 1B.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 19 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 23(7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2024/6/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:45.464731+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."
}