{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-care-act-2014-and-children-and-families-act-2014-consequential-amendments-order-2015/schedule/paragraph-56",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111128626",
  "legislation_title": "The Care Act 2014 and Children and Families Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-care-act-2014-and-children-and-families-act-2014-consequential-amendments-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/56",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995 (c. 12)",
  "text": "(1) Section 1 of the Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995 (assessment of ability of carers to provide care: England and Wales) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) for “subsection (3)” substitute “subsections (3) and (3A)”;\n(b) after “1990” insert “—\n(i) in the case of a local authority in England, of the needs of a child (“the relevant person”) for after-care services under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983, or\n(ii) in the case of a local authority in Wales,”.\n(3) In subsection (2) for “subsection (3)” substitute “subsections (3) and (3A)”.\n(4) After subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) In the case of a local authority in England, no request may be made under subsection (1) or (2) if, in relation to the relevant person or the disabled child, the carer is—\n(a) a young carer, within the meaning given by section 17ZA of the Children Act 1989, or\n(b) a parent carer, within the meaning given by section 17ZD of that Act.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 1 was amended by the Carers (Equal Opportunities) Act 2004 (c.15), section 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1983 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1989 c. 41. Section 17ZA was inserted by the Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), section 96."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 17ZD was inserted by the Children and Families Act 2014, section 97."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111128626/schedule/paragraph/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:10:06.937606+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."
}