# Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996, Introduction: Introductory text

Extent: E+W+S

An Act to enable local authorities responsible for community care services to make payments to persons in respect of their securing the provision of such services; and for connected purposes.
[4th July 1996]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/30/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/community-care-direct-payments-act-1996/introduction
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