{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-direct-payments-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-direct-payments-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2026/104",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Direct Payments) (Wales) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-direct-payments-wales-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Patients to whom direct payments may be made",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers may make direct payments to a patient—\n(a) who is not an excluded person, and\n(b) who consents to the making of direct payments to them.\n(2) In determining whether direct payments should be made to a patient falling within paragraph (1), the Welsh Ministers must have regard to—\n(a) whether direct payments are appropriate for a patient with that patient’s condition,\n(b) the impact of that condition on that patient’s life, and\n(c) whether direct payments represent value for money.\n(3) Direct payments may only be made to a patient falling with paragraph (1) if the patient—\n(a) is aged 16 or over, and\n(b) has capacity to consent to the making of direct payments to them.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/104/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:54:51.489699+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."
}