Amendment of the Council Tax Reduction (State Pension Credit) (Scotland) Regulations 201214.

In regulation 4 (young persons)13, after paragraph (2) insert—

“(3)

Where section 145A of the 1992 Act14 (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 young person include the young person in respect of whom there is entitlement under that section; and

(b)

for the purposes of these Regulations the circumstances pertaining to the young person at the date of their death are deemed to continue throughout that period.”.