{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-direct-payments-regulations-2014/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-direct-payments-regulations-2014/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2871",
  "legislation_title": "The Care and Support (Direct Payments) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-direct-payments-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Conditions which may apply to the making of direct payments",
  "text": "(1) A local authority may make a direct payment subject to other conditions.\n(2) The conditions referred to in paragraph (1) may, in particular, require that—\n(a) the needs may not be met by a particular person;\n(b) the adult or authorised person (in the case of direct payments made under section 32 of the Act) must provide information to the authority.\n(3) The conditions referred to in paragraph (1) may not require—\n(a) the needs of the adult to be met by any particular person; or\n(b) information to be provided to the authority—\n(i) more frequently and in more detail than is reasonably required by the authority for the purpose of enabling it to ascertain that—\n(aa) making direct payments is an appropriate way to meet the needs in question, or\n(bb) the conditions upon which it is made are complied with, or\n(ii) in a format which is not reasonably practicable for the adult or authorised person to provide.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2871/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:58:20.410964+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."
}