The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 1987 by–

(1) omitting Schedule 2, paragraph 4 of the 1987 Regulations to enable a child’s resources to be separately assessed and no longer taken to include sums payable for his maintenance (regulation 4);

(2) amending Schedule 2, paragraph 5 of the 1987 Regulations to allow account to be taken of resources of which an applicant has deprived himself for whatever reason (regulation 5);

(3) allowing an additional disregard of capital on a sliding scale in respect of persons of pensionable age where their disposable income (excluding investment income) is below the free income limit (regulation 6);

(4) allowing a disregard in respect of capital payments made in relation to the incident which has led to the litigation (eg disaster fund payments) (regulation 7).