Amendment of regulation 1 of the Community Charges (Scotland) Regulations2.

In regulation 1(2) of the Community Charges (Scotland) Regulations—

(a)

in the definition of “appropriate social security office” for the words “Department of Employment” there are substituted the words “Department for Education and Employment”, and for the words “unemployment benefit” there are substituted the words “jobseeker’s allowance and income support”;

(b)

in the definition of “income support”, there are added at the end of the words “but does not include any back to work bonus under section 26 of the Jobseekers Act which is paid as income support;”;

(c)

after that definition there are inserted the following definitions—
““Jobseekers Act” means the Jobseekers Act 199512;

“jobseeker’s allowance” means an allowance under Part I of the Jobseekers Act but does not include any back to work bonus under section 26 of that Act which is paid as jobseeker’s allowance;”;

(d)

after the definition of “payments to third parties” there are inserted the following definitions—
““personal allowance for a couple where both members are aged not less than 18” means the amount specified in paragraph 1(3)(c) of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations 198713, or, as the case may be, the amount specified in paragraph 1(3)(e) of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 199614;

“personal allowance for a single claimant aged not less than 25” means the amount specified in paragraph 1(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations 1987, or, as the case may be, the amount specified in paragraph 1(1)(e) of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996;”.