Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 15)

Valid from 28/06/2021

PART 3 S Eligibility and key concepts

Valid from 07/12/2021

Eligibility to apply for redress payments S

18 Eligibility to apply for a redress payment S

(1) A person may apply for a redress payment if the person or, in the case of an application for a next of kin payment, the person in respect of whom the application is made was abused while—

(a) a child, and

(b) resident in a relevant care setting in Scotland.

(2) The abuse must have occurred before 1 December 2004.

(3) In this Act, “child” means a person under the age of 18 years.

(4) But subsection (3) does not apply, in relation to an application for a next of kin payment, to a reference to a child of a deceased person.

(5) This section is subject to section 23.