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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018/schedule-5/paragraph-17",
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  "legislation_title": "Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018",
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  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The regulations may allow disability assistance to be given to an individual in a form other than money only if the individual (or a person acting on the individual's behalf) has agreed to the assistance being given in that form.\n(2) If the regulations include provision of the kind mentioned in sub-paragraph (1), they must allow an individual (or a person acting on the individual's behalf) to withdraw agreement to being given disability assistance in a form other than money at any time.\n(3) Despite sub-paragraph (1), the regulations may provide for disability assistance to be given (in whole or in part) by way of deduction, at a reasonable level, from any liability the individual has to the Scottish Ministers under section 63 if the individual has unreasonably refused to agree to the assistance being given in that form.\n(4) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (3), “reasonable level” means a level that is reasonable having regard to the financial circumstances of the individual.",
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  "status": null,
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      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 17 in force at 8.10.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/295, reg. 2(c)"
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:13.200385+00:00"
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  "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."
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