{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-services-consultation-and-representation-act-1986/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-services-consultation-and-representation-act-1986/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/33",
  "legislation_title": "Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-services-consultation-and-representation-act-1986",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Services under s. 2 of the 1970 Act: duty to consider needs of disabled persons.",
  "text": "(1) When requested to do so by—\n(a) a disabled person,\n(b) his authorised representative, or\n(c) any person who provides care for him in the circumstances mentioned in section 8,\na local authority in England shall decide whether the needs of the disabled person call for the provision by the authority of any services in accordance with section 2(4) of the 1970 Act (provision of welfare services).\n(2) ... This section applies only if the disabled person is aged under 18.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4 renumbered as s. 4(1) (1.4.2015) by The Care Act 2014 and Children and Families Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/914), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 39(2) (with arts. 1(3), 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(1) inserted (6.4.2016) by The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/413), regs. 2(1), 49(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(1) substituted (6.4.2016) by The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/413), regs. 2(1), 49(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 4(2) inserted (1.4.2015) by The Care Act 2014 and Children and Families Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/914), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 39(4) (with arts. 1(3), 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(2) omitted (6.4.2016) by virtue of The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/413), regs. 2(1), 49(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/33/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:56:13.486700+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."
}