32Early years assistance
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(1)Early years assistance is assistance (which may or may not take the form of money) given by the Scottish Ministers under section 24 to help towards meeting some of the costs associated with having, or expecting to have, a child in the family.
(2)The Scottish Ministers are to make regulations prescribing—
(a)the eligibility rules that are to be applied to determine whether an individual is entitled to early years assistance, and
(b)what early years assistance an individual who is entitled to it is to be given.
(3)Schedule 6 makes provision about the exercise of the power conferred by subsection (2).