The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015

Prospective

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

16.  Regulation 16 (persons treated as not being in Great Britain) is amended as follows—

(a) for paragraph (5)(e) substitute—

“(e) a person who has been granted, or who is deemed to have been granted, leave outside the rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971(1) where that leave is—

(i) discretionary leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom;

(ii) leave to remain under the Destitution Domestic Violence concession(2); or

(iii) leave deemed to have been granted by virtue of regulation 3 of the Displaced Persons (Temporary Protection) Regulations 2005(3);”;

(b) omit “or” after paragraph (5)(f); and

(c) after paragraph (5)(g) insert—

“;

(h) in receipt of income support, an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or on an income-related employment and support allowance; or

(i) a person who is treated as a worker for the purpose of the definition of “qualified person” in regulation 6(1) of the 2006 Regulations pursuant to regulation 5 of the Accession of Croatia (Immigration and Worker Authorisation) Regulations 2013 (right of residence of a Croatian who is an accession State national subject to worker authorisation)(4).”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 16 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1

(1)

1971 c.77.

(2)

The Destitution Domestic Violence concession is published by the Home Office at http://www.gov.uk.

(3)

S.I. 2005/1379.

(4)

S.I. 2013/1460. Regulation 5 is substituted by S.I. 2014/530.