{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-independent-advocacy-support-no-2-regulations-2014/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2889",
  "legislation_title": "The Care and Support (Independent Advocacy Support) ( No. 2) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-and-support-independent-advocacy-support-no-2-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Matters to which a local authority must have regard in deciding whether an individual would experience substantial difficulty of the kind mentioned in section 67(4) of the Act",
  "text": "In deciding whether an individual would experience substantial difficulty of the kind mentioned in section 67(4) of the Act (difficulty in understanding information etc.), a local authority must have regard to—\n(a) any health condition the individual has;\n(b) any learning difficulty the individual has;\n(c) any disability the individual has;\n(d) the degree of complexity of the individual’s circumstances, whether in relation to the individual’s needs for care and support or otherwise;\n(e) where the assessment or planning function is the carrying out of an assessment, whether the individual has previously refused an assessment; and\n(f) whether the individual is experiencing, or at risk of, abuse or neglect.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.4.2015 in accordance with reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See sections 11, 28(7), 58(4), 60(3) and 63(4) of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2889/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:58:06.984783+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."
}