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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-special-educational-needs-direct-payments-pilot-scheme-order-2011/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2011/9780111517741",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Educational Needs (Direct Payments) (Pilot Scheme) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-special-educational-needs-direct-payments-pilot-scheme-order-2011",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Request for direct payments",
  "text": "(1) Where a local authority has—\n(a) served a copy of a statement or an amended statement of special educational needs in accordance with paragraph 6 of Schedule 27 to the 1996 Act; or\n(b) carried out an assessment of a beneficiary’s learning difficulties in accordance with section 139A of the 2000 Act, and has prepared the written report referred to in section 139B(3) of the 2000 Act,\nthe authority must provide P with information and advice about direct payments under section 532A(1) of the 1996 Act and if P requests the authority to consider making a direct payment under that section, the authority must consider that request.\n(2) In this paragraph P means—\n(a) the parent of a beneficiary where the beneficiary has not yet attained the age of 16;\n(b) the beneficiary where the beneficiary has attained the age of 16 and has capacity to consent to the making of direct payments to them; or\n(c) a representative.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 139B was inserted by section 80 of the 2008 Act and amended by S.I. 2010/1158."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2011/9780111517741/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:52:36.421293+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."
}