{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-care-direct-payments-scotland-regulations-2003/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-care-direct-payments-scotland-regulations-2003/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2003/243",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Care (Direct Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-care-direct-payments-scotland-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Persons from whom services may not be secured by means of a direct payment",
  "text": "The following descriptions of persons are specified for the purposes of subsection (3) of section 12B (persons from whom services may not be secured by means of a direct payment) of the Act:–\n(a) the spouse of the beneficiary;\n(b) a person who lives with the beneficiary–\n(i) as man and wife; or\n(ii) in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between man and wife except that the person and beneficiary are of the same sex;\n(c) a person living in the same household as the beneficiary who is the beneficiary's–\n(i) parent or parent in law;\n(ii) son or daughter;\n(iii) son in law or daughter in law;\n(iv) stepson or stepdaughter;\n(v) brother or sister;\n(vi) aunt or uncle; or\n(vii) grandparent;\n(d) the spouse of any person of a description specified in paragraph (c) who lives in the same household as the beneficiary; and\n(e) a person who lives with any person of a description specified in paragraph (c)–\n(i) as man and wife; or\n(ii) in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between man and wife except that they are of the same sex.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "subst",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/458",
      "affecting_title": "The Community Care (Direct Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/243/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:36:34.040630+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."
}