The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2019 No. 325

Amendment of the Council Tax Reduction (State Pension Credit) (Scotland) Regulations 2012 S

3.  The Council Tax Reduction (State Pension Credit) (Scotland) Regulations 2012 M1 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (a) and (b)—

(a) in schedule 3 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings), after paragraph 23 insert—

“24.   Any payment or interest on a payment made under, or in connection with, the Windrush Compensation Scheme M2 administered by the Home Office.”, and

(b) in schedule 4 (capital to be disregarded)—

(i) in paragraph 21 (disregard of payments related to benefit arrears) M3 , after sub-paragraph (2)(i) insert—

“(ia) maternity allowance under section 35 of the 1992 Act,”,

(ii) after paragraph 30E M4 insert—

“30F.   Any payment or interest on a payment made under, or in connection with, the Windrush Compensation Scheme administered by the Home Office M5 .”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 3 in force at 26.11.2019, see reg. 1

Marginal Citations

M1 S.S.I. 2012/319.

M2 See www.gov.uk/windrush-compensation and Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), House of Commons, April 23 2018, col. 621-622.

M3 There are amendments to paragraph 21 that are not relevant to these Regulations.

M4 Paragraph 30E was inserted by S.S.I. 2019/29.

M5 See www.gov.uk/windrush-compensation and Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), House of Commons, April 23 2018, col. 621-622.