{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018/section-31.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2018/9",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Disability assistance",
  "text": "(1) Disability assistance is assistance (which may or may not take the form of money) given by the Scottish Ministers under section 24 to an individual on account of the individual having—\n(a) a disability arising from a physical or mental impairment, or\n(b) a terminal illness.\n(2) The Scottish Ministers are to make regulations prescribing—\n(a) the eligibility rules that are to be applied to determine whether an individual is entitled to disability assistance, and\n(b) what disability assistance an individual who is entitled to it is to be given.\n(3) Schedule 5 makes provision about the exercise of the power conferred by subsection (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 31 modified (26.7.2021) by 1984 c. 51, s. 89A(5)(d) (as inserted by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance, Young Carer Grants, Short-term Assistance and Winter Heating Assistance) (Consequential Provision and Modifications) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/886), arts. 1(2), 2(2)(a)(iii))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 31 in force at 8.10.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/295, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2018/9/section/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:13.200385+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."
}