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Article 5 Amendment of the Children (Leaving Care) Social Security Benefits (Scotland) Regulations 2004

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Regulation 2 of the Children (Leaving Care) Social Security Benefits (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (entitlement to benefits (Scotland))f1 is amended as follows—

(a)

for paragraph (2)(b) substitute—

“(b)

to whom a local authority in Scotland is obliged to provide—

(i)

continuing care in accordance with section 26A of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (duty of local authorities to provide accommodation and assistance to persons who were, but are no longer, looked after by a local authority), or

(ii)

advice, guidance and assistance in accordance with section 29(1) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (duty of local authorities to provide after-care to persons who were, but are no longer, looked after by a local authority),”; and

(b)

in paragraph (2)(d)(ii), for “in terms of that section” substitute “under that section 29(1)”.

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Footnotes

f1

S.I. 2004/747, amended by S.I. 2009/3152 and 2013/1465.