The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015

Amendment of the Council Tax Reduction (State Pension Credit) (Scotland) Regulations 2012

22.  Schedule 4 (capital disregards) is amended as follows—

(a) in paragraph 21(2) (benefits to be disregarded)(1)—

(i) at the end of sub-paragraph (m) omit “or”; and

(ii) after sub-paragraph (n) insert—

“; or

(o) any social fund payment made pursuant to Part 8 of the 1992 Act.”;

(b) in paragraph 22 (payments to be disregarded)—

(i) at the end of sub-paragraph (2)(c) omit “or”;

(ii) after sub-paragraph (1)(d) insert—

“; or

(e) paragraph 18 of Schedule 10 to the Universal Credit Regulations 2013(2),”;

(iii) in sub-paragraph (4), in the definition of “the relevant date” omit paragraph (a) and, in paragraph (b) the words “in any other case,”; and

(c) in paragraph 29 (payments to be disregarded)(3), before “sections 12A to 12D”, insert “under”.

(1)

Paragraph 21 is amended by S.S.I. 2013/142.

(2)

S.I. 2013/376.

(3)

Paragraph 29 is amended by S.S.I. 2014/90.