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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018/section-36",
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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/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Short-term assistance",
  "text": "(1) Short-term 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 a short-term basis.\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 short-term assistance, and\n(b) what short-term assistance an individual who is entitled to it is to be given.\n(3) Schedule 10 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. 36 in force at 8.10.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/295, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2018/9/section/36",
    "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."
}