{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-2025/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-2025/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/11",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Financial assistance",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may provide such financial assistance to Qualifications Scotland as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate.\n(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), “financial assistance” includes grants, loans, guarantees and indemnities.\n(3) The Scottish Ministers may specify conditions (including conditions as to repayment or the payment of interest) which apply in respect of any financial assistance provided.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 27 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 66(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 27 in force at 1.2.2026 by S.S.I. 2026/2, reg. 2(2)(3), sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/11/section/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:55.294655+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."
}