[F152BApplications for assistanceS
(1)Subsection (2) applies where regulations under Chapter 2 make an individual's eligibility for assistance in respect of a period or event depend (in any way) on an application being made by a particular time.
(2)The person determining an individual's entitlement to the assistance may treat the individual's application as having been made by that time if satisfied that the reason for its not being made sooner is related to coronavirus.
(3)For the avoidance of doubt, regulations that make a person's age at the time of making an application material to the determination of an individual's entitlement to assistance are to be understood to make the individual's eligibility depend on the application being made by a particular time (namely the time at which the person ceases to be the specified age or fall within the specified age bracket).
(4)In this section, “coronavirus” has the meaning given by section 1 of the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 52A, 52B and cross-heading inserted (7.4.2020) by Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 7), s. 17(1), sch. 7 para. 4 (with ss. 11-13)