Regulation 1 Title, commencement, application and interpretationI1

The title of these Regulations is the Care and Support (Direct Payments) (Wales) Regulations 2015.

These Regulations come into force on 6 April 2016.

These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

In these Regulations—

• “the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014;

• “A” (“A”) is used to refer to a person whose care and support needs or support needs are being or will be met by making direct payments;

• “P” (“P”) is used to refer to a person who is, or who it is proposed, will be a recipient of direct payments and who is a “suitable person”^f1 for the purposes of section 50(4) of the Act or a person with parental responsibility^f2 for A to whom direct payments may be made for the benefit of A under section 51 of the Act;

• “direct payment” (“taliad uniongyrchol”) is defined in sections 50(7), 51(7) and 52(7) of the Act;

• “relative” (“perthynas”) means—

  1. (a)

     a spouse or civil partner;

  2. (b)

     a person who lives with a person as if a spouse or civil partner;

  3. (c)

     parent, parent-in-law or step-parent,

  4. (d)

     son or daughter;

  5. (e)

     son-in-law or daughter-in-law;

  6. (f)

     stepson or stepdaughter;

  7. (g)

     brother or sister;

  8. (h)

     aunt or uncle;

  9. (i)

     grandparent; or

  10. (j)

      the spouse or civil partner of any person specified in sub-paragraphs (c) to (i).

In these Regulations references to a person’s needs “for care and support” are to be read as a person’s “needs for support” where the person is a carer.