{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014/section-187",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014/section-187.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2014/4",
  "legislation_title": "Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014",
  "path": "section/187",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "187",
  "heading": "Persons in prison, youth detention accommodation or bail accommodation etc",
  "text": "(1) A person is not a carer for the purposes of this Act if the person—\n(a) is detained in prison or youth detention accommodation, or\n(b) having been convicted of an offence, is residing in approved premises.\n(2) Regulations under section 49A or Schedule A1 (direct payments) may not require or allow payments to be made towards the cost of meeting a person's needs for care and support if that person, having been convicted of an offence, is—\n(a) detained in prison or in youth detention accommodation, or\n(b) residing in approved premises.\n(3) The power under section 57 (preference for particular accommodation) may not be exercised in the case of a person who is—\n(a) detained in prison or in youth detention accommodation, or\n(b) residing in approved premises,\nexcept for the purpose of making provision with respect to accommodation for the person on the person's release from prison or youth detention accommodation (including temporary release), or on the person's ceasing to reside in the approved premises.\n(4) Section 58 (protecting property of persons being cared for away from home) does not apply in the case of a person who is—\n(a) detained in prison or in youth detention accommodation, or\n(b) residing in approved premises.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 187(2) substituted (1.4.2026) by Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025 (asc 1), s. 29(2), Sch. 1 para. 5(5); S.I. 2025/1257, art. 3(2)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 187 in force at 6.4.2016 by S.I. 2016/412, art. 2 (with art. 4, Schs. 1, 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2014/4/section/187",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:25.857129+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."
}