Residential Accommodation (Determination of District Health Authority) (Amendment) Regulations 1993
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1993/582 |
| Year | 1993 |
1993 No. 582
SOCIAL SERVICES, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Residential Accommodation (Determination of District Health Authority) (Amendment) Regulations 1993
Made 9th March 1993
Laid before Parliament 11th March 1993
Coming into force 1st April 1993
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 26(1C) of the National Assistance Act 1948(1) and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Residential Accommodation (Determination of District Health Authority) (Amendment) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993 immediately after the coming into force of the Residential Accommodation (Determination of District Health Authority) Regulations 1992(2).
Amendment to regulation 2 of the Residential Accommodation (Determination of District Health Authority) Regulations 1992
2.—(1) In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 of the Residential Accommodation (Determination of District Health Authority) Regulations 1992 for the words “the health authority in whose district he is usually resident” there shall be substituted the words—
“(a)
“(a) if he is usually resident in the district of a district health authority that health authority;
(b)
(b) if he is usually resident outside England and Wales, the district health authority whose district includes the place at which the accommodation is to be provided”.
(2) In paragraph (2) of regulation 2 of the Residential Accommodation (Determination of District Health Authority) Regulations 1992 for the word “should” there shall be substituted the word “shall”.
Virginia Bottomley
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
9th March 1993
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations correct an error in the Residential Accommodation (Determination of District Health Authority) Regulations 1992. Those Regulations provide that if there is doubt as to the District Health Authority in whose area a person is usually resident (for the purposes of determining which district health authority is responsible for giving consent to accommodation with nursing care arrangements) he should be treated as usually resident in a particular health authority’s district determined in accordance with...
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