{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006-scheme-of-assistance-regulations-2008/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006-scheme-of-assistance-regulations-2008/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2008/406",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 (Scheme of Assistance) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006-scheme-of-assistance-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“the 2006 Act” means the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006;\n“applicant’s contribution” means an amount assessed under section 77 of the 2006 Act;\n“approved expense” has the meaning given in section 76 of the 2006 Act;\n“guarantee credit” must be construed in accordance with sections 1 and 2 of the State Pension Credit Act 2002;\n“income based jobseeker’s allowance” has the meaning given in section 1(4) of the Jobseekers Act 1995;\n“income related employment and support allowance” means employment and support allowance payable in accordance with section 1(2)(b) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007;\n“income support” means income support under Part 7 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;\n“subsidised loan” has the meaning given in section 97 of the 2006 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 16."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1995 c. 18. Section 1(4) was amended by the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30), Schedule 7, paragraph 2(4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2007 c. 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1992 c. 4 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2013/137",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Consequential Amendments) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2013"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/406/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:04:17.070788+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."
}