[F112ADirect payments for health careE+W
(1)The Secretary of State [F2, the Board, a clinical commissioning group or a local authority] may, for the purpose of securing the provision to a patient of anything to which this subsection applies, make payments, with the patient's consent, to the patient or to a person nominated by the patient.
(2)Subsection (1) applies to—
[F3(a)anything that the Secretary of State or a local authority has a duty or power to provide or arrange under section 2A or 2B or Schedule 1;]
[F4(aa)anything that the Board or a clinical commissioning group may or must arrange for the provision of under this Act or any other enactment.]
F5(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F5(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3)Subsection (1) is subject to any provision made by regulations under section 12B.
(4)If regulations so provide, [F6a clinical commissioning group] may, for the purpose of securing the provision for a patient of services that [F7the group] must provide under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (after-care), make payments, with the patient's consent, to the patient or to a person nominated by the patient [F8; and the references in this subsection to a clinical commissioning group are, so far as necessary for the purposes of regulations under subsection (2E) of that section, to be read as references to the Board.]
(5)A payment under subsection (1) F9... is referred to in this Part as a “direct payment”.
F10(6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[F11(7)In this section and sections 12B to 12D, “local authority” has the same meaning as in section 2B.]]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 12A-12D and cross-heading inserted (19.1.2010) by Health Act 2009 (c. 21), ss. 11, 40(1); S.I. 2010/30, art. 2(b)
F2Words in s. 12A(1) inserted (1.4.2013) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 4 para. 10(2); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)
F3S. 12A(2)(a) substituted (1.4.2013) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 4 para. 10(3)(a); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)
F4S. 12A(2)(aa) inserted (1.4.2013) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 4 para. 10(3)(b); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)
F5S. 12A(2)(b)(c) omitted (1.4.2013) by virtue of Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 4 para. 10(3)(c); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)
F6Words in s. 12A(4) substituted (1.4.2013) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 4 para. 10(4)(a); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)
F7Words in s. 12A(4) substituted (1.4.2013) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 4 para. 10(4)(b); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)
F8Words in s. 12A(4) inserted (1.4.2013) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 4 para. 10(4)(c); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)
F9Words in s. 12A(5) omitted (1.4.2013) by virtue of Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 4 para. 10(5); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)
F10S. 12A(6) repealed (E.) (1.8.2013) by The National Health Service (Direct Payments) (Repeal of Pilot Schemes Limitation) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1563), arts. 1, 2
F11S. 12A(7) inserted (1.4.2013) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 4 para. 10(6); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)