Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017 (Version in vigour from 2019-07-01 to )
Currency | No known outstanding effects |
Coming into Force | 01 July 2019 |
(1) The Scottish Ministers must ensure that the 2030 targets are met in the financial year beginning with 1 April 2030.less than 10% fall within section 3 (relative poverty) ,less than 5% fall within section 4 (absolute poverty) ,less than 5% fall within section 5 (combined low income and material deprivation) ,less than 5% fall within section 6 (persistent poverty) .(1) The Scottish Ministers must ensure that the interim targets are met in the financial year beginning with 1 April 2023.less than 18% fall within section 3 (relative poverty) ,less than 14% fall within section 4 (absolute poverty) ,less than 8% fall within section 5 (combined low income and material deprivation) ,less than 8% fall within section 6 (persistent poverty) .A child falls within this section in a financial year if the child lives in a household whose equivalised net income for the year is less than 60% of median equivalised net household income for the year. (1) A child falls within this section in a financial year if the child lives in a household whose equivalised net income for the year is less than 60% of the amount of median equivalised net household income for the financial year beginning with 1 April 2010, adjusted to take account of changes in the value of money since that financial year.(2) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations substitute a different date for the date mentioned for the time being in subsection (1) .(3) Regulations under subsection (2) are subject to the affirmative procedure.(a) lives in a household whose equivalised net income for the year is less than 70% of median equivalised net household income for the year, and(b) experiences material deprivation in the year.in each of the survey years, in a household in Scotland, andin at least 3 of the survey years, in a household whose equivalised net income for the survey year was less than 60% of median equivalised net household income for the survey year.the calendar year that ends during the financial year, andthe 3 previous calendar years.(1) For the purposes of this Act, the deductions to be made in calculating net household income include housing costs.(2) In this Act—
- “equivalised”, in relation to household income, means adjusted to take account of variations in household size and composition,
- “median equivalised net household income” means the median equivalised net household income for the United Kingdom.
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