Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may he cited as the National Assistance (Charges for Accommodation) (Scotland) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 8th April 1991.

(2)

These Regulations shall extend to Scotland only.

(3)

In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the National Assistance Act 1948;
“Personal Injuries Scheme”, “Service Pensions Instrument” and “1914-1918 War Injuries Scheme” have the same meanings as in the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979^f1;
a reference to a section of the Act is a reference to the section as applied by section 87(3) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968^f2 for the purposes of accommodation provided under that Act or under section 7 of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984^f3.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1979/597; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1980/1927.
f2: 1968 c. 49; section 87(3) was amended by the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30), Schedule 4, paragraph 5(1), by the Health and Social Services and Social Securitv Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), section 20(2), by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), Schedule 10, paragraph 41(2) and by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), Schedule 9, paragraph 10(13)(c).
f3: 1984 c. 36.