The Universal Credit (Claims and Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Universal Credit (Claims and Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 and come into force on 31st January 2018.

Amendment of the Universal Credit (Claims and Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 2017

2.—(1) Regulation 6 of the Universal Credit (Claims and Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 2017(1) (applications for, and awards of, universal credit to which those Regulations do not apply) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1), at the start insert “Other than as described in paragraph (1A),”.

(3) After paragraph (1), insert—

“(1A) From 31st January 2018, regulations 1, 2 and 4 have effect in relation to the awards and applications described in paragraph (1), unless it is an award or application to which either of the following conditions applies—

(a) an award of universal credit which is not administered on the digital service computer system operated by the Secretary of State in digital service areas;

(b) an application for such an award which will not be administered on that system if granted.”.

(4) In paragraph (2) (meaning of “digital service area”), for “the purpose of paragraph (1)(c),” substitute “the purposes of paragraphs (1)(c) and (1A)(a),”.

JEANE FREEMAN

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

13th December 2017