Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018

CHAPTER 2FURTHER CRITERIA

Limit to number of people entitled

2The regulations may provide that an individual is not eligible, despite satisfying one of the primary eligibility criteria, on account of one of those criteria being satisfied in respect of the same child by someone else.

Residence and presence

3The regulations may make an individual’s eligibility depend on the individual being resident and present in a particular place.

Financial circumstances

4The regulations may make an individual’s eligibility depend on the individual’s financial circumstances.

Receipt of, or eligibility for, other types of State assistance

5The regulations may make an individual’s eligibility depend on the individual—

(a)being, or not being, in receipt of another type of assistance (whether under this Act or another enactment),

(b)being, or not being, eligible or entitled to receive such assistance.

Application within specified period

6The regulations may provide that an individual ceases to be eligible on account of satisfying a primary eligibility criteria unless, by a deadline specified in the regulations—

(a)the individual has applied for early years assistance, or

(b)the Scottish Ministers have become required to make a determination of the individual’s entitlement to early years assistance by regulations under section 52.