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The Social Security (Advocacy Service Standards) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021 in England

S.S.I. 2021/399 · Made 4 November 2021

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Social Security

Made 4th November 2021

Coming into force 9th November 2021

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 11(2) and (3) of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018f1 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

In accordance with section 96(2) of that Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2018 asp 9.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Social Security (Advocacy Service Standards) (Scotland) Regulations 2020
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Advocacy Service Standards) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021 and come into force on 9 November 2021.

2Amendment of the Social Security (Advocacy Service Standards) (Scotland) Regulations 2020

(1)

The Social Security (Advocacy Service Standards) (Scotland) Regulations 2020f1 are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2)

In regulation 2 (advocacy service standards) for “31 January 2020” substitute “9 November 2021f2”.

Signature

BEN MACPHERSON

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

4th November 2021

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Advocacy Service Standards) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (“the 2020 Regulations”) to set revised advocacy service standards for the purpose of section 11 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (“the 2018 Act”).

Regulation 2 amends regulation 2 of the 2020 Regulations to update the advocacy service standards, which are set by reference to another document in accordance with section 11(3) of 2018 Act. The revised standards are set in the document entitled “Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 – Advocacy Service Standards” and it was published by the Scottish Ministers on 9 November 2021. Copies of the document may be obtained online at: http://www.gov.scot/ISBN/9781802012767.