{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-direct-payments-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-direct-payments-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1815",
  "legislation_title": "The Care and Support (Direct Payments) (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-direct-payments-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title, commencement, application and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The title of these Regulations is the Care and Support (Direct Payments) (Wales) Regulations 2015.\n(2) These Regulations come into force on 6 April 2016.\n(3) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.\n(4) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014;\n“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;\n“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” for the purposes of section 50(4) of the Act or a person with parental responsibility for A to whom direct payments may be made for the benefit of A under section 51 of the Act;\n“direct payment” (“taliad uniongyrchol”) is defined in sections 50(7), 51(7) and 52(7) of the Act;\n“relative” (“perthynas”) means—\n(a) a spouse or civil partner;\n(b) a person who lives with a person as if a spouse or civil partner;\n(c) parent, parent-in-law or step-parent,\n(d) son or daughter;\n(e) son-in-law or daughter-in-law;\n(f) stepson or stepdaughter;\n(g) brother or sister;\n(h) aunt or uncle;\n(i) grandparent; or\n(j) the spouse or civil partner of any person specified in sub-paragraphs (c) to (i).\n(5) 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.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“Suitable person” is defined in section 50(5) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“Parental responsibility” is defined in in section 197(1) of the Act by reference to section 3 of the Children Act 1989 (c. 41)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1815/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:39.543599+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."
}