PART 2GIVING OF ASSISTANCE BY SCOTTISH MINISTERS

CHAPTER 2TYPES OF ASSISTANCE TO BE GIVEN

36Short-term assistance

(1)

Short-term 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 a short-term basis.

(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 short-term assistance, and

(b)

what short-term assistance an individual who is entitled to it is to be given.

(3)

Schedule 10 makes provision about the exercise of the power conferred by subsection (2).