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31Disability assistanceS

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(1)Disability assistance is assistance (which may or may not take the form of money) given by the Scottish Ministers under section 24 to an individual on account of the individual having—

(a)a disability arising from a physical or mental impairment, or

(b)a terminal illness.

(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 disability assistance, and

(b)what disability assistance an individual who is entitled to it is to be given.

(3)Schedule 5 makes provision about the exercise of the power conferred by subsection (2).

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