{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-winter-heating-assistance-for-children-and-young-people-scotland-regulations-2020/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-winter-heating-assistance-for-children-and-young-people-scotland-regulations-2020/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2020/9780111046272",
  "legislation_title": "The Winter Heating Assistance for Children and Young People (Scotland) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-winter-heating-assistance-for-children-and-young-people-scotland-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 2018 Act” means the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018,\n“backdated award” means an award of assistance for a day, or period that begins on a day, that falls before the day the decision to make an award is taken,\n“child” means a person who has not yet reached the age of 16 years,\n“child winter heating assistance” means winter heating assistance to which a child or young person is entitled,\n“determination” means a determination of entitlement within the meaning of section 25 of the 2018 Act,\n“Disability Living Allowance” means a disability living allowance under section 71 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992,\n“qualifying week” means the week running from the third Monday in September in any year, and\n“young person” means a person who is aged 16, 17 or 18.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c.4. Section 71 was amended by section 67(1) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c.30)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2020/9780111046272/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:31:39.004779+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."
}