The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015

Amendment of the Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2012

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5.  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”; 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(1), but does not include a person who is—

(a)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)lawfully present in the United Kingdom..