{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014/section-53A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014/section-53A.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/53A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53A",
  "heading": "Direct payments: after-care under the Mental Health Act 1983",
  "text": "The ways in which a local authority may discharge its duty under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 include by making direct payments, and for that purpose Schedule A1 has effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 53A inserted (1.1.2026 for specified purposes, 1.4.2026 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025 (asc 1), ss. 20(2)(c), 29(2); S.I. 2025/1257, art. 3(1)(d)(iii)(2)(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2014/4/section/53A",
    "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."
}