{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-direct-payments-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-direct-payments-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Duty to make direct payments",
  "text": "Where—\n(a) a local authority—\n(i) is under a duty to meet a person’s needs for care and support under section 35, 37, 39, 40 or 42 of the Act; or\n(ii) has decided to meet the needs of a person for care and support under section 36 or 38 of the Act or support in relation to a carer under section 45 of the Act;\nand\n(b) the conditions in section 50, 51 or 52 of the Act (as the case may be) are met,\na local authority must make direct payments towards the cost of meeting that person’s needs for care and support unless the person is a person to whom regulation 14 applies.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1815/regulation/2",
    "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."
}