{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-carers-assistance-carer-support-payment-scotland-regulations-2023/regulation-19",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2023/9780111058091",
  "legislation_title": "The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-carers-assistance-carer-support-payment-scotland-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Applications made within 13 weeks of a qualifying disability benefit decision",
  "text": "(1) Where an individual makes an application for Carer Support Payment in respect of a cared for person within 13 weeks of a relevant qualifying disability benefit decision, the Scottish Ministers may determine that entitlement to Carer Support Payment begins on the first day of the award week in which, as a result of that relevant qualifying disability benefit decision, entitlement to that benefit begins, provided the individual satisfied the eligibility requirements set out in Part 3 of these Regulations on that date.\n(2) Where the individual does not satisfy the eligibility requirements set out in Part 3 of these Regulations on the date on which the relevant qualifying disability benefit decision falls, the Scottish Ministers may determine that entitlement to Carer Support Payment begins on a later date, provided the individual satisfies those eligibility requirements on that later date.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation, “relevant qualifying disability benefit decision” means a decision—\n(a) made by the Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers, or the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland—\n(i) on a claim or an application, or\n(ii) on revision, determination of entitlement, or supersession, or\n(b) on appeal whether by the First-tier Tribunal, the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland, the Upper Tribunal, the court, the Northern Ireland Appeal Tribunal or the Northern Ireland Social Security and Child Support Commissioner,\nawarding a qualifying disability benefit to the cared for person mentioned in paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2023/9780111058091/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:29:40.701543+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."
}