{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carers-and-disabled-children-vouchers-england-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carers-and-disabled-children-vouchers-england-regulations-2003/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1216",
  "legislation_title": "The Carers and Disabled Children (Vouchers) (England) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carers-and-disabled-children-vouchers-england-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000;\n“the 1989 Act” means the Children Act 1989;\n“the 2003 Regulations” means the Community Care, Services for Carers and Children’s Services (Direct Payments) Regulations 2003;\n“Children Act services” means services provided under section 17 of the 1989 Act;\n“Children Act voucher” means a voucher as defined in section 17B(2) of the 1989 Act;\n“community care voucher” means a voucher as defined in section 3(2) of the Act;\n“relevant parent” means, in relation to a Children Act voucher, a person with parental responsibility for the disabled child;\n“relevant supplier of services” means a supplier of services with whom the local authority has entered into a contract to provide community care services or Children Act services;\n“service” means either a Children Act service or a community care service;\n“supplier of services” means an establishment or agency in respect of which a person is registered under the Care Standards Act 2000;\n“service user” means the person cared for or the disabled child to whom the services are to be supplied using a voucher;\n“voucher” means either a Children Act voucher or a community care voucher; and\n“voucher holder” means someone to whom a voucher has been issued in accordance with regulation 4.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/762."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 c. 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1216/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:24:40.390540+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."
}