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4.—(1) An individual is entitled to be paid child winter heating assistance in respect of a qualifying week if, in respect of any day within the qualifying week the individual is—
(a)a child or young person,
(b)entitled to receive payment of the highest rate of the care component of Disability Living Allowance, and
(c)either—
(i)resident in Scotland, or
(ii)habitually resident in an EEA state listed in the schedule and has a genuine and sufficient link to Scotland.
(2) For the purposes of the rule in paragraph (1)(b), an individual is to be treated as being entitled to receive payment even if, throughout the qualifying week, regulation 9 (persons in care homes) of the Social Security (Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 1991(1) applies to the individual.
S.S.I. 1991/2890 as amended by S.I. 2007/2875, S.I. 2013/389, S.I. 2015/643 and S.I. 2019/1027.
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