1. These Regulations may be cited as the Early Years Assistance (Best Start Grants) (Scotland) Regulations 2018.
2. These Regulations come into force on the day after the day they are made.
3.—(1) Part 2 makes provision about the interpretation of these Regulations.
(2) Schedule 1 makes provision about matters of procedure for determining entitlement to early years assistance.
(3) Schedule 2 makes provision about the early years assistance that is to be given in connection with having, or expecting to have, a new baby in the family (referred to in these Regulations as “pregnancy and baby grant”).
[F1(4) Schedule 3 makes provision about the early years assistance that is to be given in connection with a child aged between 2 and 3½ years (referred to in these Regulations as “early learning grant”).]
[F2(5) Schedule 4 makes provision about the early years assistance that is to be given in connection with a child reaching the age at which children in Scotland usually start primary school (referred to in these Regulations as “school-age grant”).]
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 3(4) inserted (29.4.2019) by The Early Years Assistance (Best Start Grants) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/157), regs. 2(2), 4
F2Reg. 3(5) inserted (3.6.2019) by The Early Years Assistance (Best Start Grants) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/157), regs. 2(1), 7