Valid from 08/10/2020
36Short-term assistanceS
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(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).