The Residential Accommodation (Determination of District Health Authority) Regulations 1992

• Citation: S.I. 1992/3182
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Residential Accommodation (Determination of District Health Authority) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.

Section 2 District health authority which is to consent to nursing care arrangements

(1) The District Health Authority whose consent is required before arrangements such as are mentioned in section 26(1B) of the National Assistance Act 1948 (arrangements for the provision of accommodation with nursing care) may be made for the accommodation of any person shall be the health authority in whose district he is usually resident.

(2) If there is doubt as to where a person is usually resident for the purposes of paragraph (1) of this regulation, he should be treated as usually resident in the district of a health authority—

(a) where he gives to the local authority making the arrangements as being the address at which he usually resides an address which is within that health authority’s district,

(b) where he gives that local authority no such address but gives them his most recent address and that is within that health authority’s district,

(c) where neither sub-paragraph (a) nor sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph apply but he is present within that health authority’s district.