The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 2013

Prospective

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

13.  In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—

(a) in the definition of “child”, at the end insert—

“and where section 145A of the 1992 Act(1) (entitlement after death of a child or qualifying young person) applies, then during the period prescribed under subsection (1) of that section (and only during that period)—

(a)

references in these Regulations to a child include the child in respect of whom there is entitlement under that section; and

(b)

for the purposes of these Regulations the circumstances pertaining to the child at the date of their death are deemed to continue throughout that period”; and

(b) after the definition of “the Trusts” insert—

““universal credit” has the meaning given by section 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012(2);”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 13 in force at 25.11.2013, see reg. 1

(1)

Section 145A was inserted by section 55 of the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c.21) and amended by paragraph 48 of Schedule 24 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c.33) and paragraph 12 of Schedule 1 to the Child Benefit Act 2005 (c.6).

(2)

2012 c.5.