{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-carers-assistance-young-carer-grants-scotland-regulations-2019/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-carers-assistance-young-carer-grants-scotland-regulations-2019/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2019/9780111042496",
  "legislation_title": "The Carer’s Assistance (Young Carer Grants) (Scotland) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-carers-assistance-young-carer-grants-scotland-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Further eligibility conditions",
  "text": "(1) An applicant is not entitled to a young carer grant if, on the day their application is made, the applicant is in receipt of a benefit named in regulation 6(3)(a) or (b) in respect of any of the persons being cared for.\n(2) An applicant is not entitled to a young carer grant if they have applied for a benefit named in regulation 6(3)(a) or (b) in respect of a period that includes the day their application is made, unless it has already been determined that the applicant is ineligible for that benefit in respect of that day.\n(3) An applicant is not entitled to a young carer grant if they have previously received a young carer grant, unless the day their application is made is at least one year after the day of the application in respect of which that grant was paid.\n(4) Paragraph (5) applies if—\n(a) any other person has been paid a young carer grant in respect of care of any of the persons being cared for in an application for a young carer grant, and\n(b) that grant was paid as a result of an application made during the year immediately preceding the day the applicant makes his or her application.\n(5) The applicant is not entitled to a young carer grant unless—\n(a) the other person who was paid a young carer grant has died, or\n(b) the Scottish Ministers have concluded that a young carer grant should not have been paid to the other person.\n(6) If an applicant has already received three young carer grants, they are not entitled to a further young carer grant.\n(7) An applicant is not entitled to a young carer grant if, on the day their application is made, they are subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, unless the applicant falls within a category or description of persons specified in Part 2 of the schedule of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 2000 (persons not excluded under section 115 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 from entitlement to various social security benefits).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c.33. There are amendments to section 115 that are not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/636."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2019/9780111042496/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:32:20.982944+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."
}