The Council Tax Reduction Schemes and Prescribed Requirements (Wales) Regulations 2012 require each billing authority in Wales to make a scheme (a council tax reduction scheme) specifying the reductions which are to apply to amounts of council tax payable by persons or classes of persons considered to be in financial need. The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Default Scheme) (Wales) Regulations 2012 prescribe a scheme (the default scheme) which is to take effect if a billing authority fails to make its own council tax scheme. These Regulations are made under sections 14A to 14C of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, and make provision for the creation of offences and for powers to require information and to impose penalties in connection with council tax reduction schemes and the default scheme.