{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-direct-payments-regulations-2013/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-direct-payments-regulations-2013/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1617",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Direct Payments) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-direct-payments-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Persons to whom a direct payment may be made",
  "text": "(1) A direct payment may be made to a person who—\n(a) is a person for whose benefit anything may or must be provided or arranged by a health body—\n(i) under the 2006 Act, or\n(ii) in the case of an integrated care board or NHS England, under any other enactment; and\n(b) consents to the making of a direct payment to them.\n(2) In determining whether a direct payment should be made to a person falling within paragraph (1), a health body must have regard to—\n(a) whether it is appropriate for a person with that person’s condition;\n(b) the impact of that condition on that person’s life; and\n(c) whether a direct payment represents value for money.\n(3) A direct payment may only be made to a person falling within paragraph (1) if the person—\n(a) is aged 16 or over;\n(b) has capacity to consent to the making of a direct payment to them; and\n(c) is not a person described in the Schedule (persons excluded from direct payments).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (1.7.2022) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/634), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 1(1)(3) (with Sch. para. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.8.2013, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1617/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:49:14.753528+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."
}