Paragraph 35 Timing of applications for Scottish child payment

Sub-paragraph (2) applies where these Regulations make an individual’s eligibility for a Scottish child payment depend (in any way) on an application being made by a particular time.

The person determining an individual’s entitlement to the assistance may treat the individual’s application as having been made by that time if satisfied that the reason for its not being made sooner is related to coronavirus.

For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of these Regulations that make a child’s age at the time an application is made material to the determination of an individual’s entitlement to a Scottish child payment are to be understood to make the individual’s eligibility depend on the application being made by a particular time (namely the time at which the child ceases to be the specified age or fall within the specified age bracket).

In this paragraph, “coronavirus” has the meaning given by section 1 of the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020.