Regulation 3 Amendment of the Council Tax (Discounts) (Scotland) Regulations 1992

After paragraph 5 of the schedule^f1 insert—

“6

Care leavers

(1)

A person shall be disregarded for the purposes of discount on a particular day if on that day the person is a care leaver.

(2)

A care leaver is a person who—

(a)

is at least 18 years of age but not yet 26 years of age;

(b)

was on that person’s sixteenth birthday or at any subsequent time looked after by a local authority; and

(c)

is no longer looked after by a local authority.

(3)

In paragraph (2), the reference to “looked after” is to be construed in accordance with sections 17(6) (duty of local authority to child looked after by them) and 29(7) (after-care) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995^f2.”.