Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018

86 Agency arrangements for housing assistance

(1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations provide for the functions conferred on them by virtue of Part 2 to be exercised on their behalf by local authorities, but only in relation to―

(a) housing assistance, and

(b) short-term assistance that an individual is eligible to be given on account of the individual’s entitlement to housing assistance being under review within the meaning of paragraph 1(1)(c) of schedule 10.

(2) Regulations under this section may in particular—

(a) specify the functions that local authorities are to exercise on the Scottish Ministers’ behalf,

(b) make provision identifying the persons in relation to whom a local authority is to exercise those functions, and

(c) provide for any enactment (including this Act) to apply subject to such modifications as the Ministers consider appropriate in consequence of functions falling to be exercised by a local authority on the Ministers’ behalf.

(3) Regulations under this section do not affect the Scottish Ministers’ responsibility for the exercise of their functions.

(4) In subsection (1), “functions” does not include regulation-making functions.