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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2025/9780111062814",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2025",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nRegulations 2, 3, 4, 5(2), 5(3), 5(4)(a), 8 and 9 make miscellaneous amendments to the following instruments:\nthe Early Years Assistance (Best Start Grants) (Scotland) Regulations 2018,\nthe Welfare Foods (Best Start Foods) (Scotland) Regulations 2019,\nthe Funeral Expense Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 2019,\nthe Scottish Child Payment Regulations 2020,\nthe Winter Heating Assistance (Low Income) (Scotland) Regulations 2023,\nthe Winter Heating Assistance (Pension Age) (Scotland) Regulation 2024.\nThese Regulations remove from these instruments any:\ndefinitions of child tax credit and working tax credit,\nreference to a person who has been awarded child tax credit as being regarded as a dependent of another individual,\nreference to child tax credit and working tax credit as being benefits which confer entitlement,\nreferences to child tax credit in relation to procedural matters.\nRegulations 5(4)(b) and 6(2) make amendments to the Scottish Child Payment Regulations 2020 and the Carer’s Allowance Supplement and Young Carer Grants (Residence Requirements and Procedural Provisions) (EU Exit) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 to provide for the First-tier Tribunal’s powers when determining appeals.\nRegulation 7 amends the Social Security Information-sharing (Scotland) Regulations 2021 to reflect that discretionary housing payments are payable under Part 5 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018, which Part was commenced on 1 April 2024.\nRegulations 10 to 13 make saving provisions to account for any individual who receives a backdated child tax credit or working tax credit.\nRegulations 14 and 15 make saving provisions in connection with regulations 5(4)(b) and 6(2).\nRegulation 16 provides a definition of “hearing” for the purposes of regulations 14 and 15.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "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."
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