Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme 2017: April 2022 amendment

Schedule 5

Other payments

1. Payments may be made to the following persons in accordance with this Schedule—

a) qualifying persons and transferring qualifying persons; and

b) surviving spouses, civil partners, long term cohabitees and dependent children, of qualifying persons and transferring qualifying persons, in circumstances where the qualifying person or transferring qualifying person has died.

2. Payments, in the form of grants, may be made to provide financial support primarily to take account of the additional costs or financial hardship experienced—

a) by qualifying persons or transferring qualifying persons, as a result of illness; and

b) by surviving spouses, civil partners, long term cohabitees and dependent children, as a result of the death of the qualifying person or transferring qualifying person or as a result of caring for those persons prior to their death.