Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (asp 9)

SCHEDULE 7 S EMPLOYMENT-INJURY ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS

PART 2 S ASSISTANCE TO BE GIVEN

CHAPTER 1 S VALUE

Prospective

Nature of injury or disease S

10 S The regulations may make the value of the employment-injury assistance that is to be given to an individual depend on the—

(a) kind, and

(b) severity,

of the injury or disease in respect of which the assistance is to be given.

Prospective

Age S

11 S The regulations may make the value of the employment-injury assistance that is to be given to an individual depend on the individual's age.

[F1 Power to set value of assistance as nil S

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 7 para. 11A inserted (26.7.2021) by Social Security Administration and Tribunal Membership (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 18), ss. 13(4)(a), 18(2)(3); S.S.I. 2021/232, reg. 2(g)

11A (1) Provision may be made in the regulations for the value of the employment-injury assistance that is to be given to an individual in respect of a period to be £0, but— S

(a) such provision must be framed so as to apply by reference to at least one of the following matters—

(i) the individual being resident and present in a particular place during the period,

(ii) the individual being in receipt of another type of assistance (whether under this Act or another enactment) during the period, and

(b) the Scottish Ministers may only make such provision where they consider that it would be in the interests of the individuals to whom it applies to be entitled to employment-injury assistance with a value of £0 in respect of a period rather than not being entitled to employment-injury assistance at all.

(2) Nothing in sub-paragraph (1)(a) is to be taken to preclude provision being framed so as to apply by reference to further matters in addition to those mentioned there.]