{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-services-and-social-security-adjudications-act-1983/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-services-and-social-security-adjudications-act-1983/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/41",
  "legislation_title": "Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-services-and-social-security-adjudications-act-1983",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Charges for local authority services in England ....",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (3) below, an authority in England providing a service to which this section applies may recover such charge (if any) for it as they consider reasonable.\n(2) This section applies to services provided under the following enactments—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) paragraph 1 of Part II of Schedule 9 to this Act ...\n(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) If a person—\n(a) avails himself of a service to which this section applies ... , and\n(b) satisfies the authority providing the service that his means are insufficient for it to be reasonably practicable for him to pay for the service the amount which he would otherwise be obliged to pay for it,\nthe authority shall not require him to pay more for it than it appears to them that it is reasonably practicable for him to pay.\n(4) Any charge under this section may, without prejudice to any other method of recovery, be recovered summarily as a civil debt.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 17(1) inserted (E.W.) (18.3.2011) by Social Care Charges (Wales) Measure 2010 (nawm 2), ss. 14(2), 18(3); S.I. 2011/849, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 17(2)(a)-(d) omitted (1.4.2015) by virtue of The Care Act 2014 and Children and Families Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/914), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 31(2) (with arts. 1(3), 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 17(2)(e) omitted (1.4.2015) by virtue of The Care Act 2014 and Children and Families Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/914), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 31(3) (with arts. 1(3), 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 17(2)(f) omitted (1.4.2015) by virtue of The Care Act 2014 and Children and Families Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/914), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 31(2) (with arts. 1(3), 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 17(2A)(5) omitted (E.W.) (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), 39(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 17(3)(a) omitted (E.W.) (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), 39(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 17 heading omitted (E.W.) (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), 39(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/41/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:07:08.155028+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."
}