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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014-consequential-amendments-regulations-2016/regulation-51",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2016/413",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014-consequential-amendments-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/51",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 16(1) (interpretation)\n(a) in the definition of “disabled person”, for paragraph (a) substitute—\n“(a) in relation to Wales means a person who is disabled within the meaning of section 3 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014; and”;\n(b) in the definition of “local authority”—\n(i) after “1970” insert “or the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014”;\n(ii) for “that Act” substitute “the 1970 Act”;\n(c) in the definition of “the welfare enactments”—\n(i) omit “Part III of the 1948 Act, section 2 of the 1970 Act and”;\n(ii) in paragraph (za), after “England,” insert “section 2 of the 1970 Act,”;\n(iii) in paragraph (a), for the words from “Schedule 15” to the end of the paragraph insert “Parts 4 and 6 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014”;\n(d) for subsection (2) substitute—\n“(2) In this Act as it applies in relation to England, any reference to a child who is looked after by a local authority has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the Children Act 1989.\n(2ZA) In this Act as it applies in relation to Wales, any reference to a child who is looked after by a local authority has the same meaning as in Part 6 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 51 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph (a) in the definition of “disabled person” was amended by the Children Act 1989, Schedule 13, paragraph 61 and by S.I. 2015/914, Schedule, paragraphs 36, 41(1), (3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph (za) in the definition of “welfare enactments” was inserted by S.I. 2015/914, Schedule, paragraphs 36, 41(1), (4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph (a) in the definition of “welfare enactments” was amended by S.I. 2015/914, Schedule, paragraphs 36, 41(1), (5) and by the Children Act 1989, Schedule 13, paragraph 61."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 16(2) was inserted by the Children Act 1989, Schedule 13, paragraph 61."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2016/413/regulation/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:30:17.878837+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."
}