(1)Employment-injury assistance is assistance (which may or may not take the form of money) given by the Scottish Ministers under section 24 to an individual on account of the individual, or another individual, having suffered an injury, or contracted a disease, in the course of employment.
(2)The Scottish Ministers are to make regulations prescribing—
(a)the eligibility rules that are to be applied to determine whether an individual is entitled to employment-injury assistance, and
(b)what employment-injury assistance an individual who is entitled to it is to be given.
(3)Schedule 7 makes provision about the exercise of the power conferred by subsection (2).