Amendment of the Council Tax Reduction (State Pension Credit) (Scotland) Regulations 2012
7. In schedule 4 (capital disregards)—
(a)in paragraph 21(1)(d), for “, an official error,” substitute—
“—
(i)an official error,
(ii)an error on a point of law made by an officer of the Department of Work and Pensions, or
(iii)any error made by a member of staff of the Scottish Administration involved in the administration of social security benefits to which no person outside the Scottish Government or the Department for Work and Pensions materially contributed,”;
(b)in paragraph 22(1) for “an official error” substitute “an error described in sub-paragraph (1A)”; and
(c)after paragraph 22(1) insert—
“(1A) Sub-paragraph (1) applies to—
(a)an official error,
(b)an error on a point of law made by an officer of the Department of Work and Pensions,
(c)any error made by a member of staff of the Scottish Administration involved in the administration of social security benefits to which no person outside the Scottish Government or the Department for Work and Pensions materially contributed.”.