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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-early-years-assistance-best-start-grants-scotland-regulations-2018/note",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2018/9780111039694",
  "legislation_title": "The Early Years Assistance (Best Start Grants) (Scotland) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-early-years-assistance-best-start-grants-scotland-regulations-2018",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make provision about early years assistance, a type of assistance that is to be given by the Scottish Ministers under Part 2 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.\nPart 2 of the Regulations provides for the interpretation of expressions used in that Part and in the schedules.\nSchedule 1 deals with procedural matters connected to the giving of early years assistance.\nSchedule 2 sets out who is eligible to be given early years assistance in the form of a pregnancy and baby grant. It is a grant payable to people who have, or are expecting to have, a new baby in the family. Part 2 of schedule 2 states the value of a pregnancy and baby grant and makes provision about the circumstances in which it can be given in non-monetary form.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2018/9780111039694/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:33:10.884640+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}