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The Council Tax Reduction (State Pension Credit) (Scotland) Regulations 2012

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6.—(1) Where an applicant has ceased to occupy what was formerly the dwelling occupied as the applicant’s home following estrangement or divorce from the applicant’s former partner or the dissolution of a civil partnership with the applicant’s former partner, that dwelling for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which the applicant ceased to occupy it or, where the dwelling is occupied as a home by the former partner who is a lone parent, for so long as it is so occupied.

(2) In this paragraph “dwelling” includes any garage, garden and outbuildings pertaining to the home formerly occupied by the applicant and any premises not so occupied which it is impracticable or unreasonable to sell separately, and in particular any croft land on which the dwelling is situated.

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