# The Housing Benefit (Community Charge Rebates) (Scotland) Regulations 1988, Regulation 4: Persons of prescribed description

Extent: E+W+S

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person of a prescribed description for the purposes of section 20(11) of the Act (definition of family) as it applies to housing benefit is a person aged 16 or over but under 19 who is treated as a child for the purposes of section 2 of the Child Benefit Act 1975 (meaning of child), and in these Regulations such a person is referred to as a “young person”.
(2) Paragaph (1) shall not apply to a person who is on income support.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1890/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-community-charge-rebates-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-4
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