34Funeral expense assistanceS
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(1)Funeral expense 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, funeral expenses.
(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 funeral expense assistance, and
(b)what funeral expense assistance an individual who is entitled to it is to be given.
(3)Schedule 8 makes provision about the exercise of the power conferred by subsection (2).
Commencement Information
I1S. 34 in force at 11.9.2019 by S.S.I. 2019/269, reg. 2(a)