{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/self-directed-support-direct-payments-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/self-directed-support-direct-payments-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2014/25",
  "legislation_title": "The Self-directed Support (Direct Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/self-directed-support-direct-payments-scotland-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where East Renfrewshire Council or Moray Council decides under section 12A(1)(b) of the 1968 Act that the needs of a person call for the provision of the community care services described in paragraph (2).\n(2) The community care services are—\n(a) residential accommodation; or\n(b) residential accommodation with nursing (under section 13A (residential accommodation with nursing) of the 1968 Act),\nfor a period in excess of 4 consecutive weeks in any period of 12 months.\n(3) Despite regulation 10, a person to whom this regulation applies is not within the description of persons specified for the purposes of section 15(2)(a) of the Act (persons who are ineligible to receive direct payments).\n(4) A local authority is not required under section 5 of the Act to give a person the opportunity to choose Option 1 and, so far as relating to that option, Option 4 in the circumstances specified in paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 6 inserted (2.10.2015) by The Self-directed Support (Direct Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/319), regs. 1, 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/25/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:36:26.632595+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."
}