{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/basic-payment-scheme-tapering-payment-entitlements-and-closure-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2025/1282",
  "legislation_title": "The Basic Payment Scheme (Tapering, Payment Entitlements and Closure) (Wales) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/basic-payment-scheme-tapering-payment-entitlements-and-closure-wales-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Tapering of payments under the basic payment scheme",
  "text": "(1) The Direct Payments Regulation is amended as follows.\n(2) After Article 5A (the total ceiling for Wales), insert—\n“Article 5B\nTapering of payments under the basic payment scheme in Wales\n1. The Welsh Ministers may annually reduce payments under the basic payment scheme by such amounts as they consider appropriate.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/1282/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:56:22.540382+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}