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

16.—(1) Any payment made under or by— S

(a) the Trusts, the Fund, the Eileen Trust, MFET Limited, the Skipton Fund, the Caxton Foundation [F1 , another infected blood payment scheme] [F2 , the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund, the London Emergencies Trust or the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund]; or

(b) [F3 ILF Scotland].

[F4 (1A) Any payment or interest on a payment made under the Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) Act 2020,

(1B) A Grenfell Tower payment.

(1C) A Post Office compensation payment.

(1D) a vaccine damage payment where the applicant—

(a) receives a vaccine damage payment or is a person for whose benefit a vaccine damage payment was made,

(b) is the partner of a person referred to in head (a) and receives a payment by or on behalf of that person which is derived from a vaccine damage payment,

(c) was the partner of a person referred to in head (a) immediately before the person’s death and receives a payment from their estate which is derived from a vaccine damage payment, or

(d) in a case where a vaccine damage payment is made to the personal representative of a person who was severely disabled as a result of vaccination (“P”), was P’s partner immediately before P’s death and receives a payment from P’s estate which is derived from a vaccine damage payment.]

(2) Any payment by or on behalf of a person who is suffering, or who suffered, from haemophilia or who is or was a qualifying person, which derives from a payment made under or by any of the Trusts and which is made to or for the benefit of that person's partner or former partner from whom the applicant is not, or where that person has died was not, estranged or divorced or with whom the applicant has formed a civil partnership that has not been dissolved or, where that person has died, had not been dissolved at the time of that person's death.

(3) Any payment by or on behalf of the partner or former partner of a person who is suffering, or who suffered, from haemophilia or who is or was a qualifying person provided that the partner or former partner and that person are not, or if either of them has died were not, estranged or divorced or, where the partner or former partner and that person have formed a civil partnership, the civil partnership has not been dissolved or, if either of them has died, had not been dissolved at the time of the death, which derives from a payment made under or by any of the Trusts and which is made to or for the benefit of the person who is suffering from haemophilia or who is a qualifying person.

(4) Any payment by a person who is suffering from haemophilia or who is a qualifying person, which derives from a payment under or by any of the Trusts, where—

(a) that person has no partner or former partner from whom the person is not estranged or divorced or with whom the applicant has formed a civil partnership that has not been dissolved, nor any child who is or had been a member of that person's household; and

(b) the payment is made either—

(i) to that person's parent or step-parent; or

(ii) where that person at the date of the payment is a child or a student who has not completed full-time education and has no parent or step-parent, to any person standing in the place of the applicant's parent,

but only for a period from the date of the payment until the end of two years from the person's death.

(5) Any payment out of the estate of a person who suffered from haemophilia or who was a qualifying person, which derives from a payment under or by any of the Trusts, where—

(a) that person at the date of the person's death had no partner or former partner from whom the person was not estranged or divorced or with whom the person had formed a civil partnership that had not been dissolved, nor any child who was or had been a member of the person's household; and

(b) the payment is made either—

(i) to the person's parent or step-parent; or

(ii) where the person at the relevant date was a child or a student who had not completed full-time education and had no parent or step-parent, to any person standing in place of the applicant's parent,

but only for a period of two years from the person's death.

(6) In the case of a person to whom or for whose benefit a payment referred to in this paragraph is made, any capital resource which derives from any payment of income or capital made under or deriving from any of the Trusts or [F5 ILF Scotland].

[F6 (7) In this paragraph “qualifying person” means a person—

(a) in respect of whom payment has been made from the Fund, the Eileen Trust, MFET Limited, the Skipton Fund, the Caxton Foundation, another infected blood payment scheme, the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund, the London Emergencies Trust or the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund, or

(b) who has received a Grenfell Tower payment, a Post Office compensation payment, a payment or interest on a payment under the Windrush Compensation (Expenditure) Act 2020 or a vaccine damage payment in any of the circumstances described in sub-paragraph (1D).]

(8) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (2) to (6), any reference to the Trusts is to be construed as including a reference to the Fund, the Eileen Trust, MFET Limited, the Skipton Fund, the Caxton Foundation [F7 , any other infected blood payment scheme] [F8 , the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund, the London Emergencies Trust and the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund].

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in sch. 4 para. 16(1)(a) inserted (1.4.2017) by The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/41), regs. 1, 19(a)

F2 Words in sch. 4 para. 16(1)(a) substituted (20.11.2017) by The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/326), regs. 1, 11(c)

F3 Words in sch. 4 para. 16(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2016) by The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/81), regs. 1(2), 17(2)(b)

F4 Sch. 4 para. 16(1A)-(1D) inserted (5.11.2023) by The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/268), regs. 1, 2(6)(a)(i)

F5 Words in sch. 4 para. 16(6) substituted (1.4.2016) by The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/81), regs. 1(2), 17(2)(b)

F6 Sch. 4 para. 16(7) substituted (5.11.2023) by The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/268), regs. 1, 2(6)(a)(ii)

F7 Words in sch. 4 para. 16(8) inserted (1.4.2017) by The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/41), regs. 1, 19(c)

F8 Words in sch. 4 para. 16(8) substituted (20.11.2017) by The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/326), regs. 1, 12