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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018/section-34",
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  "legislation": "asp/2018/9",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018",
  "path": "section/34",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Funeral expense assistance",
  "text": "(1) Funeral expense assistance is assistance (which may or may not take the form of money) given by the Scottish Ministers under section 24 to an individual to meet, or help towards meeting, funeral expenses.\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 funeral expense assistance, and\n(b) what funeral expense assistance an individual who is entitled to it is to be given.\n(3) Schedule 8 makes provision about the exercise of the power conferred by subsection (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 34 in force at 11.9.2019 by S.S.I. 2019/269, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2018/9/section/34",
    "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."
}