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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-direct-payments-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-direct-payments-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Net payments or gross payments",
  "text": "(1) When a local authority decides to make direct payments, whether under regulation 2 or regulation 14 of these Regulations, it must decide whether to make them as net payments or gross payments.\n(2) In deciding whether to make net payments or gross payments a local authority must take into account the effect on A having regard to A’s financial circumstances.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Before making a decision about whether to make direct payments a local authority will have carried out a financial assessment in accordance with regulation 6 of the Care and Support (Financial Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1844 (W. 272)) and will have made a determination in accordance with regulation 20 of the Care and Support (Charging) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1843 (W. 271))."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1815/regulation/9",
    "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."
}