The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022

Amendment of the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001

7.—(1) The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation)—

(a) omit the definition of “child disability payment”;

(b) after the definition of “relevant decision” insert—

““Scottish disability benefit” means, as the context requires, either of the following benefits—

(a)

adult disability payment within the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022; and

(b)

child disability payment within the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (Scotland) Regulations 2021;”.

(3) In regulation 4(7B)(b) (revision of decisions), for each occurrence of “child disability payment” substitute “Scottish disability benefit”.

(4) In regulation 7(2)(i)(ii) (decisions superseding earlier decisions), for each occurrence of “child disability payment” substitute “Scottish disability benefit”.

(5) In regulation 8(14) (date from which a decision superseding an earlier decision takes effect) for each occurrence of “child disability payment” substitute “Scottish disability benefit”.

(1)

S.I. 2001/1002, as amended by S.I. 2003/2275, S.I. 2008/1082, S.I. 2010/1907, S.I. 2014/213 and 2021/786; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.