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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-schemes-prescribed-requirements-england-regulations-2012/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2885",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-schemes-prescribed-requirements-england-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Disabled child premium",
  "text": "The condition is that a child or young person for whom the applicant or a partner of his is responsible and who is a member of the applicant’s household—\n(a) is in receipt of disability living allowance or personal independence payment or is no longer in receipt of such allowance because he is a patient, provided that the child or young person continues to be a member of the family; or\n(aa) is in receipt of child disability payment; or\n(ab) is a young person who is in receipt of Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance or who would, but for payment ceasing by virtue of regulation 23 (effect of admission to hospital on ongoing entitlement to Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025 be so in receipt, provided that the young person continues to be a member of the family; or\n(b) is blind within the meaning of paragraph 6(4) of this Schedule or treated as blind in accordance with paragraph 6(5); or\n(c) is a child or young person in respect of whom section 145A of the SSCBA (entitlement after death of child or qualifying young person) applies for the purposes of entitlement to child benefit but only for the period prescribed under that section, and in respect of whom a disabled child premium was included in the applicant’s applicable amount immediately before the death of that child or young person, or ceased to be included in the applicant’s applicable amount because of that child or young person’s death;\n(d) is a young person who is in receipt of adult disability payment or who would, but for payment ceasing by virtue of regulation 28 (effect of admission to hospital on ongoing entitlement to Adult Disability Payment) of the DAWAP Regulations be so in receipt, provided that the young person continues to be a member of the family; or\n(e) is a young person who is in receipt of an AFIP.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(aa) inserted (11.2.2022 with application in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/25), regs. 1(1), 6(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(ab) inserted (13.2.2026 with application in relation to financial years beginning on or after 1.4.2026) by The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/27), regs. 1(1), 6(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(d)(e) inserted (10.2.2023 with application in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/16), regs. 1(1), 7(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8 in force at 27.11.2012, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2885/schedule/2/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:13:07.880127+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."
}