
2025 No. 119 (C. 13)
Social Security
The Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 1 and Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2025
Made 23rd April 2025
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 25th April 2025
Coming into force 10th May 2025
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 27(2) and (3) of the Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2025 and all other powers enabling them to do so.
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1 

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 1 and Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 10 May 2025.
(2) In these Regulations—
 “the Act” means the Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2025, and
 “the 2018 Act” means the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.
Appointed day
2 
10 May 2025 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of the table in the schedule (the subject matters of which are described in column 2 of that table).
Saving provision: section 9 of the Act
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(1) Paragraph (2) applies where the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland has heard evidence in an appeal under section 46(1) of the 2018 Act at a hearing before 10 May 2025 and adjourns or continues that hearing to a date on or after 10 May 2025.
(2) Despite the coming into force of section 9 of the Act, section 49 of the 2018 Act as it applied immediately before 10 May 2025 continues to apply for the purposes of—
(a) that appeal under section 46(1) of the 2018 Act,
(b) any onward appeal against the decision of the First-tier Tribunal in that appeal.
(3) In this regulation, “hearing” has the same meaning as in rule 1 of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland Social Security Chamber Rules of Procedure 2018.
Transitional and savings provisions: section 22 of the Act
4 
Despite the coming into force of section 22 of the Act, paragraph 12 of schedule 1 of the 2018 Act continues to apply in relation to each financial year up to and including the financial year ending with 31 March 2025.
5 
Despite section 22 of the Act coming into force on a date that falls within the financial year ending with 31 March 2026, paragraph 12(1)(b) and (c) of schedule 1 of the 2018 Act does not apply in relation to the period starting on 1 April 2025 and ending on the day appointed by regulation 2.
Transitional provision: section 23 of the Act
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Despite the coming into force of section 23 of the Act, the Scottish Commission on Social Security is not required to prepare a report mentioned in section 22(4A) of the 2018 Act relating to any period before 1 April 2025.
SHIRLEY-ANNE SOMERVILLE
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
23rd April 2025
SCHEDULE
Regulation 2


Column 1Provision Column 2Subject matter
Section 2 Care experience assistance
Section 9 Determinations as part of appeal
Section 17 Duty to uprate assistance for inflation
Section 20 Scrutiny of regulations by the Commission
Section 21 Removal of Commission’s status as body corporate
Section 22 Removal of Commission’s accounting and auditing duties
Section 23 Duty on Commission to publish annual report