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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-state-pension-credit-scotland-regulations-2012/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2012/319",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Reduction (State Pension Credit) (Scotland) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-state-pension-credit-scotland-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In a case of earnings from any employment or employments to which sub-paragraph (2) applies, £20.\n(2) This paragraph applies to employment—\n(a) as a part time fire-fighter employed by a fire and rescue authority constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies ;\n(b) as a part-time fire-fighter employed by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service established under section 1A of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005;\n(c) as an auxiliary coastguard in respect of coast rescue activities;\n(d) in the manning or launching of a lifeboat if the employment is part-time; and\n(e) as a member of any territorial or reserve force prescribed in Part 1 of Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001 .\n(3) If—\n(a) any of the earnings of the applicant or the applicant's partner, or both of them, are disregarded under sub-paragraph (1); and\n(b) either of them has, or both of them have, other earnings,\nso much of those other earnings as would not if aggregated with the earnings disregarded under sub-paragraph (1) exceed £20.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2015) by The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/46), regs. 1, 21"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2004 c.21."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Sections 2 and 4 were amended by paragraph 22 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c.28) and Schedule 7 to the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (c.20)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/1004, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/319/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:42:06.306638+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."
}