# The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Consequential and Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2013, Paragraph 24: The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006


(1) The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 13D(12) (determination of a maximum rent (LHA)), in the definition of “care leaver” after paragraph (c) insert—
“(ca) that person has ceased to be subject to a compulsory supervision order within the meaning of section 83 of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”) which had continued after that person attained the age of 16 years, other than a case where—
(i) the section 67 ground (within the meaning of that Act) was based on the sole condition as to the need for compulsory measures of supervision specified in section 67(2)(j) of the 2011 Act (the child has committed an offence); or
(ii) that person was required by virtue of the compulsory supervision order to reside with a parent or guardian of that person within the meaning of the 1995 Act, or with a friend or relative of that person or of that person’s parent or guardian;”.
(3) In regulation 21 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the household)—
(a) in paragraph (3)(a) after “boarded out”, insert “or placed”; and
(b) in paragraph (6)—
(i) omit the final “and”; and
(ii) at the end insert “and the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111536575/schedule/1/paragraph/24 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2013/schedule-1/paragraph-24
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