{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018-disability-assistance-consequential-amendments-order-2025/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/227",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018-disability-assistance-consequential-amendments-order-2025",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 1(3) (citation, commencement, application and interpretation), in the definition of “Scottish disability benefit”—\n(a) omit the “or” after sub-paragraph (b);\n(b) after sub-paragraph (c), insert—\n“or\n(d) Scottish adult disability living allowance within the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025;”.\n(3) In paragraph 3 of Schedule 3A (date from which superseding decision takes effect)—\n(a) omit the “or” after sub-paragraph (h);\n(b) after sub-paragraph (h), insert—\n“(ha) regulation 22 (effect of admission to a care home on ongoing entitlement to care component) of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025 applies, or ceases to apply, to the claimant for a period of less than one week;”;\n(c) after sub-paragraph (i), insert—\n“; or\n(j) regulation 28 (effect of admission to hospital on ongoing entitlement to adult disability payment) of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022 applies, or ceases to apply, to the claimant for a period of less than one week.”.\n(4) In paragraph 2(b) of Schedule 3B (date on which change of circumstances takes effect where claimant entitled to state pension credit)—\n(a) omit the “or” after paragraph (vi);\n(b) after paragraph (vi), insert—\n“(vii) the care component of Scottish adult disability living allowance at the middle or higher rate under the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025; or”.\n(5) In paragraph 3 of Schedule 3C (date from which change of circumstances takes effect where claimant entitled to employment and support allowance)—\n(a) omit the “or” after sub-paragraph (f);\n(b) after sub-paragraph (f), insert—\n“(fa) regulation 22 (effect of admission to a care home on ongoing entitlement to care component) of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025 applies, or ceases to apply, to the claimant for a period of less than one week;”;\n(c) after sub-paragraph (g), insert—\n“; or\n(h) regulation 27 (effect of admission to a care home on ongoing entitlement to daily living component) of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022 applies, or ceases to apply, to the claimant for a period of less than one week;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/991; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2000/1596, 2002/3019, 2006/2377, 2008/1554, 2013/2536, 2013/381, 2013/388, 2013/443, 2022/177 and 2024/919."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2025/3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/227/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:19:49.677032+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."
}