Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018

Prospective

CHAPTER 2 S FURTHER CRITERIA

Place where injury suffered or disease contracted S

4 S The regulations may make an individual's eligibility depend on where, geographically, the injury was suffered or the disease developed (or is deemed to have been suffered or developed).

Residence and presence S

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

Age S

6 S The regulations may make an individual's eligibility depend on the individual's age.

Financial circumstances S

7 S Subject to paragraph 8, the regulations may not make an individual's eligibility depend on the financial circumstances of either or both—

(a) the individual, and

(b) anyone who lives with the individual.

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

8 S The 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 S

9 S The regulations may provide that an individual ceases to be eligible on account of an injury being suffered or a disease developed unless, by a deadline specified in the regulations—

(a) the individual has applied for employment-injury assistance, or

(b) the Scottish Ministers have become required to make a determination of the individual's entitlement to employment-injury assistance by regulations under section 52.