{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-winter-heating-assistance-pension-age-scotland-regulations-2024/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-winter-heating-assistance-pension-age-scotland-regulations-2024/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2024/9780111060940",
  "legislation_title": "The Winter Heating Assistance (Pension Age) (Scotland) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-winter-heating-assistance-pension-age-scotland-regulations-2024",
  "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“care home” means an establishment which provides a care home service as defined in paragraph 2 of schedule 12 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010,\n“child tax credit” has the same meaning as in the Tax Credits Act 2002,\n“couple” means two people who are—\n(a) married to, or civil partners of, each other and are members of the same household, or\n(b) not married to, or civil partners of, each other but are living together as if they were a married couple or civil partners,\n“determination” means a determination of entitlement within the meaning of section 25 of the 2018 Act (meaning of “determination of entitlement”),\n“free in-patient treatment” has the same meaning as in regulation 2(4) and (5) of the Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005 (hospital in-patients entitled to an increase in benefit for a dependant),\n“income support” means income support under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (income-related benefits),\n“income-based jobseeker’s allowance” means income-based jobseeker’s allowance under the Jobseekers Act 1995,\n“income-related employment and support allowance” means an income-related allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (employment and support allowance),\n“independent hospital” means an independent healthcare service specified in section 10F(1)(a) and (b), and defined in section 10F(2), of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (meaning of “independent health care services”),\n“Pension Age Winter Heating Payment” means winter heating assistance given in accordance with these Regulations,\n“pensionable age” has the meaning given by the rules in paragraph 1 of schedule 4 of the Pensions Act 1995 (equalisation of and increase in pensionable age for men and women),\n“polygamous marriage” means any marriage which took place under the laws of a country which permits polygamy where—\n(a) any member of the marriage is for the time being married to more than one person, and\n(b) all the members of the marriage are members of the same household,\n“qualifying week” means in respect of any year the week beginning on the third Monday in the September of that year,\n“relevant benefit” means—\n(a) state pension credit,\n(b) income-based jobseeker’s allowance,\n(c) income-related employment and support allowance,\n(d) income support,\n(e) universal credit,\n(f) child tax credit or working tax credit (where the award is not less than £26 in respect of the tax year 2024 to 2025),\n“state pension credit” has the meaning set out in section 1 of the State Pension Credit Act 2002 (entitlement),\n“universal credit” means universal credit under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (universal credit),\n“working tax credit” has the same meaning as in the Tax Credits Act 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2010 asp 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2002 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/3360."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1992 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1995 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "2007 c. 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1978 c. 29. Section 10F was inserted by section 108 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1995 c. 26. Paragraph 1 of schedule 4 was amended by paragraph 39 of schedule 2 of the State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16), paragraph 13 of schedule 3 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5), paragraph 4 of schedule 3 of the Pensions Act 2007 (c. 22), section 1 of the Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19) and section 26 and paragraph 30 of schedule 12 of the Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "2002 c. 16."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "2012 c. 5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2024/9780111060940/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:29:04.072198+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."
}