{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-care-self-directed-support-scotland-act-2013/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-care-self-directed-support-scotland-act-2013/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2013/1",
  "legislation_title": "Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-care-self-directed-support-scotland-act-2013",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Promotion of options for self-directed support",
  "text": "(1) A local authority must take steps to promote the availability of the options for self-directed support.\n(2) For the purpose of making available to supported persons a wide range of support when choosing options for self-directed support, a local authority must, in so far as is reasonably practicable, promote—\n(a) a variety of providers of support, and\n(b) the variety of support provided by it and other providers.\n(3) In subsection (2), “supported person” has the meaning given by section 4(2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 19(2) applied (1.4.2018) by Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 9), ss. 25(5), 45(2); S.S.I. 2017/152, reg. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 19 in force at 1.4.2014 by S.S.I. 2014/32, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2013/1/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:36.076772+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."
}