SCHEDULE 2Establishment of Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland and Healthcare Improvement Scotland and dissolution of the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care: modification of enactments

PART 2Secondary Legislation

Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006

53.  In the Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006(1)—

(a)in regulation 2(1) (interpretation) in the definition of—

(i)“care home” for “section 2(3) of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001” substitute “paragraph 2 of schedule 12 to the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010”;

(ii)“independent hospital” for paragraph (c) substitute—

“(c)in Scotland, means an independent health care service as defined in section 10F(1)(a) and (b) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;”;

(b)for regulation 18(8)(e) (treatment of child care charges) substitute—

“(e)by—

(i)persons registered under section 59(1) of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010; or

(ii)local authorities registered under section 83(1) of that Act,

where the care provided is child minding or day care of children within the meaning of that Act; or”.