{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-early-years-assistance-best-start-grants-scotland-regulations-2018/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-early-years-assistance-best-start-grants-scotland-regulations-2018/regulation-12.json",
  "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": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Meaning of references to assistance being awarded",
  "text": "(1) An individual is not to be regarded as having been awarded a kind of assistance for a day or a period if—\n(a) the award was made in error (whether or not induced by the individual); or\n(b) the sum awarded to the individual for the day or the period is £0.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(b), the reference to “the sum awarded” means, in a case where a deduction has been made—\n(a) in respect of any liability the individual has to another person; or\n(b) by way of a sanction,\nthe sum that would have been awarded had the deduction not been made.\n(3) For the avoidance of doubt, in sub-paragraph (1) “kind of assistance” includes universal credit as well as the kinds of assistance specified in regulation 11.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2018/9780111039694/regulation/12",
    "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."
}