The Community Care (Disregard of Resources) (Scotland) Order 2002
The Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 5) amended section 12 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c. 49) by substituting subsections (3A) and (3B). The new subsections provide that an order may specify so much of a person’s resources as shall be disregarded by a local authority, or specify a way of calculating such resources as shall be disregarded, when deciding for the purposes of section 12 of the 1968 Act whether to make available assistance, by way of residential accommodation, to a person.