{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/self-directed-support-direct-payments-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-3A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/self-directed-support-direct-payments-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-3A.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/3A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": "Means testing for direct payments: carers",
  "text": "(1) A local authority may not—\n(a) assess a direct payment user’s ability to contribute to the cost of securing the support to which a direct payment relates under regulation 3(1); or\n(b) require a direct payment user to contribute to a direct payment under regulation 3(3) or (4)\nin the circumstances specified in paragraph (2).\n(2) The circumstances are that the support to which the direct payment relates is—\n(a) support under section 24 of the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016; or\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3A inserted (1.4.2014) by The Carers (Waiving of Charges for Support) (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/65), regs. 1, 4(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3A(2)(a) substituted (1.4.2018) by The Self-directed Support (Direct Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/29), regs. 1, 2(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 3A(2)(b) revoked (1.4.2018) by The Self-directed Support (Direct Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/29), regs. 1, 2(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/25/regulation/3A",
    "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."
}