36Short-term assistanceS
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(1)Short-term 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 a short-term basis.
(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 short-term assistance, and
(b)what short-term assistance an individual who is entitled to it is to be given.
(3)Schedule 10 makes provision about the exercise of the power conferred by subsection (2).
Commencement Information
I1S. 36 in force at 8.10.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/295, reg. 2(b)