http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2003/431/article/10The Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-05-15Expert Participation2022-04-01 The Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003art. 15(2)(e)(f)Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022Sch. 3 para. 62s. 160(1) The Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 PART III101For the purposes of this Order, an establishment is a residential care home if it provides or is intended to provide, whether for reward or not, residential accommodation with both board and personal care for persons in need of personal care by reason of—aold age and infirmity;bdisablement;cpast or present dependence on alcohol or drugs; ordpast or present mental disorder.2But an establishment is not a residential care home if it is—aa hospital which is vested in the Department or managed by an HSC trust;ba private hospital as defined in Article 90(2) of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (NI 4);can establishment which is used, or is intended to be used, solely as a nursing home;da children's home;ea university, or an institution of further education, college of education or school;or if it is of a description excepted by regulations.3In paragraph (1)—“disablement”, in relation to persons, means that they are substantially and permanently handicapped by illness, congenital deformity, sensory impairment or any other prescribed disability;“personal care” includes the provision of appropriate assistance in counteracting or alleviating the effects of any of the matters mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) to (d) and, in particular, includes—action taken to promote rehabilitation;assistance with physical or social needs; andcounselling,but does not include any prescribed activity.Words in Order substituted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), ss. 32, 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 1(1)(d) (with Sch. 6 para. 1(3)); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2