(1)Winter heating assistance is assistance (which may or may not take the form of money) given by the Scottish Ministers under section 24 to an individual to meet, or help towards meeting, the individual’s heating costs during the winter months.
(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 winter heating assistance, and
(b)what winter heating assistance an individual who is entitled to it is to be given.
(3)Schedule 4 makes provision about the exercise of the power conferred by subsection (2).