Social Justice and Social Security Committee [Draft]

Meeting date: Thursday, November 10, 2022

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Subordinate Legislation

Scottish Child Payment (Saving Provisions) Regulations 2022 (SSI 2022/302)

Item 4 is consideration of a negative statutory instrument, the Scottish Child Payment (Saving Provisions) Regulations 2022. The regulations make saving provisions in connection with the amendments made by the Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendment and Transitional Provision) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 (SSI 2022/336) to the Scottish Child Payment Regulations 2020 (SSI 2020/351). They come into force on 14 November 2022.

The saving provisions are required to come into force on the same day as the amending regulations, to ensure that the higher weekly rate of £25 applies only to periods of entitlement that fall on or after 14 November 2022 and that an individual’s entitlement to a double payment of Scottish child payment when a child dies does not apply where the child in question dies before 14 November 2022.

The committee considered the amending regulations at its meeting on 27 October 2022. In advance of today’s consideration, the committee received a letter from the Minister for Social Security and Local Government explaining why the Scottish Government laid a standalone savings instrument under section 95 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.

Are members content to note the instrument?

Members indicated agreement.