PART 4

Persons ineligible to receive direct payments
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The description of persons specified for the purposes of section 15(2)(a) of the Act (persons who are ineligible to receive direct payments) are persons to whom a local authority has decided to provide (or arrange for the provision of)—
a
residential accommodation; or
b
residential accommodation with nursing (under section 13A (residential accommodation with nursing) of the 1968 Act ),
for a period in excess of 4 consecutive weeks in any period of 12 months.
Section 13A was inserted by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c.19), section 56 and amended by the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c.33), section 120(2) and the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 8), section 72 and schedule 3, paragraph 4.
Reg. 10 in force at 1.4.2014, see reg. 1