'scant provisions' is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is often used to describe a limited amount of supplies or resources available. For example, "The refugees had only scant provisions to sustain them through their journey."
A prison built to house 900 inmates now holds 1,300, and there is scant provision for the most vulnerable amongst them.
What -- there's a very -- as you point out, there's scant statutory provision concerning the contest.
Provisions are scant: I am out of my most important food group, Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi.
But division over the drilling provisions and its scant funding for mass transit brought opposition from moderate Republicans, while conservatives objected to the amount of federal largess in the bill.
SMSC provision is particularly scant after the age of 14, says the report, because of exams "leaving little space to focus on wider development".
Although some scattered reports describe mass killings of dodos for ships' provisions, archaeological investigations have found scant evidence of human predation.
There is relatively abundant information on ecosystem services provision within agroforestry systems, but comparatively scant information regarding how coffee farmers manage their plantations, the factors influencing their farming practices and the extent to which farmers' local knowledge – as opposed to global scientific understanding – underpins management decisions.
For example, most corporate managers interviewed demonstrated scant awareness of culturally appropriate services or their provision in the provider organisation.
In its accounts, EDF gives scant detail of the assumptions used to calculate the provisions and no disclosure is made of the costs on an undiscounted basis.In addition, decommissioning costs are susceptible to manipulation by being "discounted away" through the simple expedient of postponing part of the process.
