[17A Direct payments]

[17A  Direct payments]

[(1)     The [Secretary of State] may by regulations make provision for and in connection with requiring or authorising the responsible authority in the case of a person of a prescribed description who falls within subsection (2) to make, with that person's consent, such payments to him as they may determine in accordance with the regulations in respect of his securing the provision of the service mentioned in that subsection.

(2)     A person falls within this subsection if he is—

(a)     a person with parental responsibility for a disabled child,

(b)     a disabled person with parental responsibility for a child, or

(c)     a disabled child aged 16 or 17,

and a local authority (“the responsible authority”) have decided for the purposes of section 17 that the child's needs (or, if he is such a disabled child, his needs) call for the provision by them of a service in exercise of functions conferred on them under that section.

[(3)     Regulations under this section may, in particular, make provision—

(a)     specifying circumstances in which the responsible authority are not required or authorised to make any payments under the regulations to a person, whether those circumstances relate to the person in question

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