Amendment of the Council Tax Reduction (State Pension Credit) (Scotland) Regulations 2012I117
Regulation 19 (persons subject to immigration control) is amended as follows—
a
the existing text becomes paragraph (1);
b
in that paragraph omit “within the meaning given in section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999”; and
c
after paragraph (1) insert—
2
In paragraph (1) “a person subject to immigration control” has the meaning given in section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 199923, but does not include a person who—
a
is a national of a state which has ratified the European Convention on Social and Medical Assistance (done in Paris on 11th December 1953) or a state which has ratified the Council of Europe Social Charter (signed in Turin on 18th October 1961); and
b
is lawfully present in the United Kingdom.