{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-charging-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-charging-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-3.json",
  "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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Persons who may not be charged",
  "text": "A local authority may not impose a charge for care and support provided or arranged—\n(a) to meet the needs of a child;\n(b) for a person who is suffering from any form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease where that disease has been clinically diagnosed by a registered medical practitioner;\n(c) for a person who has been offered or is receiving a service provided as part of a package of after care services in accordance with section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (after care).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“Registered medical practitioner” is defined in Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1983 c. 20."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1843/regulation/3",
    "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."
}