Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Act 2003

10 Adjustments between social services authorities

(1) Regulations may make provision as to the application of this Part in cases where, in relation to a qualifying hospital patient, it appears to the responsible authority for the time being that the patient is ordinarily resident in the area of another social services authority.

(2) The regulations may, among other things, authorise or require a social services authority—

(a) to accept a notice given to it under section 2 notwithstanding that it may wish to dispute that it was the right authority to be notified;

(b) to become the responsible authority for a patient’s case in place of the social services authority previously responsible;

(c) to recover expenditure incurred—

(i) in the performance of functions under this Part in relation to a qualifying patient;

(ii) in the provision of community care services which are the subject of a decision under section 4(2)(b); or

(iii) in the provision of services to a carer which are the subject of a decision under section 4(3)(b),

from another social services authority.

(3) The regulations may modify the effect of any provision of this Part as it applies in any cases falling within subsection (1).