{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-funds-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-funds-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2016/9780111030332",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Funds (Scotland) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-funds-scotland-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Decisions on fund applications",
  "text": "(1) Every decision on a fund application is to be communicated to the applicant in writing, unless the applicant requests otherwise.\n(2) A local authority is to make its decision on an application for a crisis grant—\n(a) immediately after the authority has received all information allowing a decision to be made; and\n(b) in any event, no later than the end of the next working day.\n(3) A local authority is to make its decision on an application for a community care grant no later than the end of the fifteenth working day after that on which the authority has received all information allowing a decision to be made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2016/9780111030332/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:34:38.481130+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."
}