1. These Regulations may be cited as the Self-directed Support (Direct Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 1st April 2014.
2.—(1) In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013; and
“direct payment user” means a person who has chosen Option 1 or, so far as relating to that option, Option 4 under section 5, 7 or 8 of the Act.
(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered “Option” is to one of the options for self-directed support in section 4 (options for self-directed support) of the Act.