Reimbursement of employers of payments to relevant social care workers

6.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), an employer who pays a relevant social care worker an amount described in regulation 5 is entitled to reimbursement from the Fund, together with payment of such administration costs (if any) as the Scottish Ministers think fit.

(2) An employer must provide evidence satisfactory to the Scottish Ministers, to them, or to such person as they may appoint to administer the Fund, that—

(a)the relevant social care worker has met all of the conditions set out in regulation 3,

(b)the worker was entitled to the amount sought to be reimbursed, and

(c)the employer has paid to the worker that amount.

(3) An employer of a relevant social care worker is not entitled to reimbursement to the extent to which they have received a payment from any public body or other person in reimbursement of that amount.