5.—(1) Any application for a Scottish child payment under the Scottish Child Payment Regulations in respect of a child who is aged 6 years old or older which is made before 14 November 2022 is to be treated for the purposes of those Regulations as having been made on 14 November 2022.
(2) Where the Scottish Ministers make a determination without receiving an application by virtue of Part 2 of the schedule of the Scottish Child Payment Regulations that an individual is entitled to a Scottish child payment in respect of—
(a)a period that includes one or more days falling before 14 November 2022, and
(b)a child who reached the age of 6 before that date,
the individual’s entitlement begins on 14 November 2022.
(3) In the case of any application to which paragraph (1) applies, regulation 18A of the Scottish Child Payment Regulations is to be read as though, for the words from “begins” to the end there were substituted “begins is 14 November 2022”.
(4) In the case of any determination to which paragraph (2) applies, regulation 18A of the Scottish Child Payment Regulations does not apply.
(5) For the purposes of paragraph (1), an application is “made” on the date it is received by the Scottish Ministers.