PART 1

Care and support

Establishing where a person lives, etc.

Financial adjustments between local authorities
41
1
This section applies where—
a
a local authority has been meeting an adult’s needs for care and support, but
b
it transpires (whether following the determination of a dispute under section 40 or otherwise) that the adult was, for some or all of the time that the authority has been meeting the adult’s needs, ordinarily resident in the area of another local authority.
2
This section also applies where—
a
a local authority has been meeting a carer’s needs for support, but
b
it transpires (whether following the determination of a dispute under section 40 or otherwise) that the adult needing care was, for some or all of the time that the authority has been meeting the carer’s needs, ordinarily resident in the area of another local authority.
3
The local authority concerned may recover from the other local authority the amount of any payments it made towards meeting the needs in question at a time when the other local authority was instead liable to meet them under section 18 or 20(1) (as the case may be).
4
Subsection (3) does not apply to payments which are the subject of a deferred payment agreement entered into by the local authority in question, unless it agrees with the other local authority to assign its rights and obligations under the deferred payment agreement to that other authority.
5
Any period during which a local authority was meeting the needs in question under section 19 or 20(6) is to be disregarded for the purposes of this section.