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.