The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2013

Made: 13th February 2013

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 15th February 2013

Coming into force: 18th March 2013

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers in sections 80 and 113(1) and (2) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1992[^f00001] and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2013 and come into force on 18thMarch 2013.

Amendment of the Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2012

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The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2012[^f00002] are amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 16.

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For paragraph 31(e) of Schedule 4 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) substitute—

(e) the National Health Service Commissioning Board established by section 1H of the National Health Service Act 2006[^f00005] or a clinical commissioning group established under section 14D of the National Health Service Act 2006[^f00006].

Signed

JOHN SWINNEY — A member of the Scottish Government

13th February 2013

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (“the principal Regulations”).

They increase the amount of non-dependant deductions, personal allowances, family premium, disability premiums and components to be taken into account when calculating entitlement to council tax reduction (regulations 11 and 14(a), (c), (f), (h) and (i)) . They increase the amount of gross income to be taken into account when calculating the amount of alternative maximum council tax reduction (regulation 15).

They amend the definition of “attendance allowance” to take into account the repeal of Schedule 8 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c.4) (regulation 3(b)). They amend paragraph 41 of Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations to take into account the abolition of primary care trusts in England and Wales (regulation 16). They rectify defects in the principal Regulations (regulations 3(a), (c) and (d), 4 to 10, 12, 13 and 14 (other than regulation 14(a), (c), (f), (h) and (i)).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1992 c.14. Section 80 was amended by paragraph 176 of Schedule 13 to the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c.39). The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).

[^f00002]: S.S.I. 2012/303.

[^f00005]: 2006 c.41. Section 1H was inserted by section 9(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7) and amended by S.I.2012/1831.

[^f00006]: Section 14D was inserted by section 25(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

Editorial notes

[^key-abbf690b8a5a50989536fc17f82107b5]: Reg. 1 in force at 18.3.2013, see reg. 1

[^key-a553382e50285a564a718a018576a3d0]: Reg. 16 in force at 18.3.2013, see reg. 1

[^key-6a40f1cb5258e31450f520b5b1344375]: Reg. 2 in force at 18.3.2013, see reg. 1

[^key-b03b73cc0a3caf2ea081e943c9e3703b]: Regs. 3-15 revoked (1.4.2022) by The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/249), reg. 1, sch. 6 (with regs. 2, 97-101)