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Amendments to the Council Tax Reduction Schemes and Prescribed Requirements (Wales) Regulations 2013

7.  In Schedule 3 (sums disregarded from applicant’s earnings: pensioners), for paragraph 5(1)(b) substitute—

(b)is or are registered as blind in a register compiled under section 29 of the National Assistance Act 1948 (welfare services), or registered as severely sight-impaired in a register established and maintained by a local authority under section 18(1) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 or section 77(1) of the Care Act 2014, or in Scotland, has or have been certified as blind and in consequence are registered in a register maintained by or on behalf of a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994; or.