{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carers-scotland-act-2016-transitional-provisions-regulations-2018/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carers-scotland-act-2016-transitional-provisions-regulations-2018/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2018/34",
  "legislation_title": "The Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carers-scotland-act-2016-transitional-provisions-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Transitional provision in respect of persons in receipt of services or support",
  "text": "(1) A local authority may not—\n(a) assess a direct payment user’s ability to contribute to the cost of securing support or services to which a direct payment relates; or\n(b) require a direct payment user to contribute to a direct payment where the direct payment relates to support or services.\n(2) In this regulation—\n“direct payment” has the meaning given by section 4(2) of the 2013 Act; and\n“direct payment user” has the meaning given by regulation 2(2) of the Self-directed Support (Direct Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 2014.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 4(2) includes a definition of “supported person” and “support” which is also relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2014/25."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/34/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:14:18.376970+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."
}