Version Superseded: 01/04/2022
Point in time view as at 18/03/2013. This version of this provision has been superseded.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2012, Section 61.
61.—(1) This regulation applies to payments from access funds that are not payments to which regulation 64(2) or (3) (income treated as capital) applies.
(2) A payment from access funds, other than a payment to which paragraph (3) applies, is to be disregarded as income.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4) and paragraph 40 of Schedule 4, any payments from access funds which are intended and used for an item of food, ordinary clothing or footwear, household fuel, or rent of a single applicant or, as the case may be, of the applicant or any other member of the applicant's family and any payments from access funds which are used for any council tax or water charges for which that applicant or member is liable, are to be disregarded as income to the extent of £20 per week.
(4) Any payment from access funds is to be disregarded as income where that payment is made—
(a)on or after 1st September or the first day of the course of study, whichever occurs first, but before receipt of any student loan in respect of that year and that payment is intended for the purpose of bridging the period until receipt of the student loan; or
(b)before the first day of the course to a person in anticipation of the person becoming a student.
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