{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-languages-act-2025/section-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-languages-act-2025/section-38.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/10",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Languages Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-languages-act-2025",
  "path": "section/38",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Financial assistance for the promotion etc. of the Scots language",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may give financial assistance to any person for the purposes of promoting, facilitating and supporting the use of the Scots language.\n(2) In subsection (1), “financial assistance” includes grants and loans.\n(3) Financial assistance under subsection (1) may be made subject to such conditions as the Scottish Ministers think fit.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 38 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 48(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 38 in force at 30.11.2025 by S.S.I. 2025/348, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/10/section/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:55.928534+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."
}