F1SCHEDULE A1Direct payments: after-care under the Mental Health Act 1983
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
Modifications to section 53
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After subsection (8) of that section insert—
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Regulations under sections 50 and 51 must specify that direct payments to meet the cost of providing or arranging for the provision of after-care services under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (after-care) must be made at a rate that the local authority estimates to be equivalent to the reasonable cost of securing the provision of those services to meet those needs.
Sch. A1 inserted (6.4.2016) by The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/413), regs. 2(6), 323