This Order makes provision as to the terms and conditions on which local authorities may make payment out of sums paid to them by Scottish Ministers as grant towards expenditure incurred by the local authorities in providing or contributing to the provision of prescribed housing support services.

Article 3 provides that the local authority may make payments only if the payee falls into one of the categories described in Part I of the Schedule.

Article 4 requires the local authority to impose a condition that the payment out of grant will fall to be repaid, in whole or in part, in any of the circumstances described in Part II of the Schedule.