{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carers-assistance-carer-support-payment-scotland-regulations-2023/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carers-assistance-carer-support-payment-scotland-regulations-2023/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2023/302",
  "legislation_title": "The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carers-assistance-carer-support-payment-scotland-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Age criteria",
  "text": "(1) Carer Support may only be paid in respect of an individual who is 16 years of age or older.\n(2) Where an individual was born on 29 February, the individual’s birthday is to be taken to fall on 28 February in a year which is not a leap year.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4 substituted (15.3.2026) by The Carer’s Assistance (Miscellaneous and Consequential Amendments, Revocation, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/340), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(a) (with regs. 5(1), 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 19.11.2023, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2023/302/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:43:26.766921+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."
}