{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-direct-payments-pilot-scheme-order-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-direct-payments-pilot-scheme-order-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/206",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Educational Needs (Direct Payments) (Pilot Scheme) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-direct-payments-pilot-scheme-order-2012",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Stopping making direct payments",
  "text": "The local authority must stop making direct payments if—\n(a) any consent required under paragraph 10 is withdrawn;\n(b) the person receiving the direct payments ceases to be a person to whom direct payments may be made in accordance with paragraphs 6 to 8;\n(c) where the person receiving the direct payments is a nominee or a representative, and the nominee or representative no longer meets all of the conditions set out in paragraph 7 or, as the case may be, paragraph 8;\n(d) following a review under paragraph 15, it appears to the local authority that the person receiving the direct payments is not using the direct payments to secure the agreed provision;\n(e) following a review under paragraph 15, it appears to the local authority that the agreed provision can no longer be secured by means of direct payments;\n(f) at any point the local authority becomes aware that the making of direct payments in respect of a beneficiary is—\n(i) having an adverse impact on other services which the local authority provides or arranges for children and young people in its area for whom it maintains a statement of special educational needs under section 324 of the 1996 Act or who are subject to a learning difficulty assessment arranged under section 139A of the 2000 Act; or\n(ii) no longer consistent with the authority’s efficient use of its resources.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 17 in force at 30.1.2012, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/206/schedule/1/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:43:31.313691+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."
}