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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/self-directed-support-direct-payments-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-5",
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  "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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Third party direct payments",
  "text": "A local authority may pay all or part of a direct payment to a person other than the direct payment user (a “third party”) if—\n(a) the direct payment user asks the local authority to make the payment to the third party; and\n(b) the local authority is satisfied that the direct payment user retains total control over how the direct payment is spent.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 1.4.2014, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/25/regulation/5",
    "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."
}