PART 2

GIVING OF ASSISTANCE BY SCOTTISH MINISTERS
CHAPTER 2

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE TO BE GIVEN

Short-term assistance
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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).