{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-amendment-regulations-1998/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-amendment-regulations-1998/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/724",
  "legislation_title": "The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-amendment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of principal Regulations",
  "text": "In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (assessment of disposable capital and disposable income)–\n(a) in paragraph 1 after the definition of “capital” there shall be inserted–\n““dependent person” means a person wholly or substantially maintained by the person concerned”;\n(b) in paragraph 6(d) for the words “, a dependent child, or a dependent relative wholly or substantially maintained by him” there shall be substituted the words “or a dependent person”;\n(c) for paragraph 7(c) there shall be substituted–\n“7 (c) there shall be a deduction in respect of the maintenance of the spouse of the person concerned, if the spouses are living together, in respect of the maintenance of any dependent person, being a member of his or her household, at the following rates:–\n(i) in the case of a spouse, at a rate equivalent to the difference, as at the date when the application for advice and assistance is made, between the income support allowance for a couple where both members are aged not less than 18 (which is specified in column (2) of paragraph 1(3)(d) of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987), and the allowance for a single person aged not less than 25 (which is specified in column (2) of paragraph 1(1)(e) of Part I of Schedule 2 to those Regulations);\n(ii) in the case of a dependent person aged under 19, at a rate equivalent to the amount specified in, column 2 of paragraph 2(1) of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 appropriate to that person as at the date when the application for advice and assistance is made;\n(iii) in the case of a dependent person aged 19 or over, at a rate equivalent to the amount specified in column 2 of paragraph 2(1)(c) of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987;”.\n(d) for paragraph 10(2) there shall be substituted “In this Schedule “pensionable age” means the age of 60”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1967, as relatively amended by S.I. 1996/2545 and S.I. 1997/543."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The amount specified was substituted by S.I. 1997/543."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The allowances specified were amended by S.I. 1997/2545 and the amounts specified were substituted by S.I. 1997/543."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/724/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:34:33.437042+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}