(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations bring into force section 7 of the Social Security Administration and Tribunal Membership (Scotland) Act 2020 on 11 October 2021. Section 7 modifies sections 77 and 78 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 which provide for the duty to consider the effects of inflation on the value of assistance given under that Act and the duty to uprate certain types of assistance annually. Scottish Child Payment is added to the list of types of assistance to which the duty to uprate applies.
The Bill for that Act received Royal Assent on 10 November 2020. In accordance with section 18(1) of that Act, sections 1, 4, 5, 6, 14, 17, 18 and 19 came into force the following day.