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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-scotland-regulations-2026/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348281293",
  "legislation_title": "The Warm Home Discount (Scotland) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-warm-home-discount-scotland-regulations-2026",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule—\n“income-based jobseeker’s allowance” means an income-based jobseeker’s allowance under section 1 of the Jobseekers Act 1995;\n“income-related employment and support allowance” means an employment and support allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007, entitlement to which is based on section 1(2)(b) of that Act;\n“income support” means income support under Part 7 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;\n“state pension credit” means state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act 2002;\n“universal credit” means universal credit under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.\n(2) A person (“P”) in receipt of a benefit mentioned in any of paragraphs 3 to 6, or treated as entitled to a benefit mentioned in paragraph 7(3)(a), is not to be treated as “responsible” for a child for the purposes of this Schedule unless P is treated as responsible for the child in accordance with the rules of the benefit in question.\n(3) Where a person (“P”) is in receipt of, or treated as entitled to, income support, an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or an income-related employment and support allowance, a child is not to be treated as normally living with P for the purposes of this Schedule unless P and the child are members of the same household, determined in accordance with the rules of the benefit in question.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 18. Section 1 was amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 7 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30), paragraph 12 of Schedule 3 to the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5) and sections 44(2) and 49(2) of, and Schedule 14 to, the Welfare Reform Act 2012."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2007 c. 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1992 c. 4. Part 7 is prospectively repealed by Schedule 14 to the Welfare Reform Act 2012."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2002 c. 16."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2012 c. 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "See regulation 4 of S.I. 2013/376 (universal credit); the Universal Credit Regulations 2013; regulation 15 of S.I. 1987/1967 (income support); regulation 77 of S.I. 1996/207 (income-based jobseeker’s allowance); and regulation 156(10) of S.I. 2008/794 (income-related employment and support allowance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "See regulation 16 of S.I. 1987/1967 (income support); regulation 78 of S.I. 1996/207 (income-based jobseeker’s allowance); and regulation 156 of S.I. 2008/794 (income-related employment and support allowance)."
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:37:39.468762+00:00"
  },
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  "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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