The Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Modifications of Enactments) Order 2011

Housing Benefit Regulations 2006

51.  In the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006(1)—

(a) in regulation 2(1) (interpretation) in the definition of—

(i) “care home” for “section 2(3) of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001” substitute “paragraph 2 of schedule 12 to the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010”;

(ii) “independent hospital” for paragraph (c) substitute—

“(c) in Scotland, means an independent health care service as defined in section 10F(1)(a) and (b) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;”;

(b) for regulation 28(8)(e) (treatment of child care charges) substitute—

“(e) by—

(i) persons registered under section 59(1) of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010; or

(ii) local authorities registered under section 83(1),

where the care provided is child minding or day care of children within the meaning of that Act; or”.

(1)

S.I. 2006/213, as relevantly amended by S.I. 2010/1881.