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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-charging-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-17",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1843",
  "legislation_title": "The Care and Support (Charging) (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-charging-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Persons in relation to whom regulations 17 to 30 apply",
  "text": "(1) A local authority has a discretion to require a person to whom it makes direct payments to make a contribution or reimbursement towards the cost of securing the provision of the care and support in respect of which the payments are made.\n(2) When exercising the discretion to require a contribution or reimbursement, a local authority must act in accordance with regulations 17 to 30.\n(3) Regulations 17 to 30 apply in relation to a person whose needs for care and support a local authority is meeting in accordance with a duty or a power to make direct payments conferred by the Direct Payments Regulations by virtue of sections 50 and 52 of the Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1843/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:30.955505+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."
}