The Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2026 / Rheoliadau Deddf Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol (Cymru) 2025 (Diwygiadau Canlyniadol) (Cymru) 2026

Explanatory note

Reproduced verbatim from the instrument as published on legislation.gov.uk (Crown Copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0). The note is prepared by the responsible government department and is not part of the instrument itself.

These Regulations amend the Care Act 2014 and the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (“ the 2016 Act ”) in consequence of amendments made by the Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025 (“ the 2025 Act ”).

Regulation 2 amends references that the Care Act 2014 makes to certain provisions of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 that are amended by the 2025 Act. These are provisions relating to “direct payments” made towards the cost of meeting a person’s needs for care and support or towards the cost of meeting a person’s need for “after-care” under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983.

Regulation 3 amends section 47(d) of the 2016 Act to reflect amendments made to section 32 of that Act by section 17(2) of the 2025 Act.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with this instrument.