Pension Age Winter Heating Payment: Letter To The Social Justice And Social Security Committee
A letter from Shirley-Anne Somerville, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice to Collette Stevenson MSP, the Convenor of the Social Justice and Social Security Committee in relation to the Winter Heating Assistance (Pension Age) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025
Footnotes
a. 2018 asp 9 (“the 2018 Act”). Schedule 4 of the 2018 Act makes provision about the exercise of powers under section 30. Section 41 was amended by paragraph 2 of schedule 7 of the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 7). The powers to make these Regulations are exercised together by virtue of section 33(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10). The Regulations are subject to the affirmative procedure by virtue of section 33(3) of that Act.
b. S.S.I. 2024/351, amended by S.S.I. 2025/100.
c. 1999 c. 33. Section 115(9) was amended by S.I. 2020/1309.
d. OJ C 202, 7.6.2016.
e. 2020 c. 1.
f. Regulation 10 was amended by S.S.I. 2025/100.
g.The schedule ceased to have effect on 1 April 2025 by virtue of S.S.I. 2024/351, referred to in this instrument as the principal Regulations.