{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-social-services-direct-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-social-services-direct-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/131",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Social Services (Direct Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-social-services-direct-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Persons from whom services may not be secured by means of a direct payment",
  "text": "The following persons are prescribed for the purposes of Article 15A(2) of the Order—\n(a) the spouse of the payee;\n(b) a person who lives with the payee as his spouse;\n(c) a person living in the same household as the payee who is the payee's—\n(i) parent or parent-in-law;\n(ii) son or daughter;\n(iii) son-in-law or daughter-in-law;\n(iv) stepson or stepdaughter;\n(v) brother or sister;\n(vi) aunt or uncle; or\n(vii) grandparent;\n(d) the spouse of any person specified in sub-paragraph (c) who lives in the same household as the payee; and\n(e) a person who lives with any person specified in sub-paragraph (c) as that person’s spouse.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 1.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/131/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:29:56.254017+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."
}