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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1Cross-border placements

Financial adjustments

6(1)This paragraph applies where—

(a)an adult has been provided with accommodation in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, and

(b)it transpires (whether following the determination of a dispute under paragraph 5 or otherwise) that an authority in another of the territories was, for some or all of the time that the accommodation was being provided, liable to provide the adult with accommodation.

(2)The authority which made the arrangements may recover from the authority in the other territory the amount of any payments it made towards the making of the arrangements at a time when the other authority was liable to provide the adult with accommodation.

(3)A reference to an authority is a reference to a local authority in England, Wales or Scotland or a Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland.