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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-discounts-scotland-amendment-order-1997/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-discounts-scotland-amendment-order-1997/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/586",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax (Discounts) (Scotland) Amendment Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-discounts-scotland-amendment-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of principal Order",
  "text": "In article 4 of the principal Order–\n(a) in paragraph (1)–\n(i) after the word “question”, there shall be added “(a)”; and\n(ii) after the word “below”, there shall be added the following:–\n“;\n(b) meets the requirements in paragraph (3) below; or\n(c) is a qualifying person for the purposes of paragraph (4) below”;\n(b) at the end of paragraph (2), there shall be added the following sub-paragraph:–\n“(k) incapacity benefit under section 40 or 41 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992.”; and\n(c) the following paragraphs shall be added after paragraph (2):–\n“(3) The requirements in this paragraph are–\n(a) that the person in question has reached pensionable age as defined for the purposes of Parts I to VI of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992; and\n(b) that, had he not reached pensionable age, he would have been entitled to one of the benefits listed in paragraph (2) above.\n(4) A qualifying person is a person whose partner is in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance in a case where, by virtue of that person’s incapacity for work, the applicable amount for the purposes of regulation 83 or 84 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 includes a premium which falls to be determined under head (d) or (g) of paragraph 14(1) of Schedule 1 to those Regulations.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 4; sections 40 and 41 were substituted by the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994 (c. 18), Schedule 1, paragraphs 8 and 9, and section 41 was amended by the Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26), Schedule 4, paragraph 21(4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/207."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/586/article/2",
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  },
  "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."
}