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(1)Where—
(a)a disabled person is living at home and receiving a substantial amount of care on a regular basis from another person (who is not a person employed to provide such care by any body in the exercise of its functions under any enactment), and
(b)it falls to a [F2relevant authority] to decide whether the disabled person’s needs call for the provision of any personal social services for him,
the [F2relevant authority] shall, in deciding that question, have regard to the ability of that other person to continue to provide such care on a regular basis.
(2)Where that other person is unable to communicate, or (as the case may be) be communicated with, orally or in writing (or in each of those ways) by reason of any mental or physical incapacity, the [F2relevant authority] shall provide such services as, in its opinion, are necessary to ensure that any such incapacity does not prevent the [F2relevant authority] from being properly informed as to the ability of that person to continue to provide care as mentioned in subsection (1).
(3)Section 3(8) shall apply for the purposes of subsection (2) above as it applies for the purposes of section 3(7), but as if any reference to the disabled person or his authorised representative were a reference to the person mentioned in subsection (2).
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 8 heading substituted (1.4.2022) by Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 3), s. 8(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 130; S.R. 2022/102, art. 2(b)
F2Words in s. 8 substituted (1.4.1994) by S.I. 1994/429 (N.I. 2), arts. 1(3), 7(1), Sch. 1
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 8 excluded (31.3.2003) by Carers and Direct Payments Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c. 6), ss. 1(6), 11; S.R. 2003/201, art. 2
C2S. 8 excluded by S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2), art. 18A(6) (as inserted (31.3.2003) by Carers and Direct Payments Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c. 6), ss. 5, 11; S.R. 2003/201, art. 2)
Commencement Information
I1S. 8 partly in force; s. 8 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 12(2); s. 8(1) in force at 1.4.1991 by S.R. 1990/456, art. 2, Sch.
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