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National Assistance Act 1948
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24Authority liable for provision of accommodation.
(1)The local authority liable under this Part of this Act to provide residential accommodation for any person shall subject to the following provisions of this Part of this Act be the authority in whose area the person is ordinarily resident
(2)The local authority liable under this Part of this Act to provide temporary accommodation for any person shall be the authority in whose area the person is.
(3)Where a person in the area of a local authority—
(a)is a person with no settled residence, or
(b)not being ordinarily resident in the area of the local authority, is in urgent need of residential accommodation under this Part of this Act,
the authority shall have the like duty to provide residential accommodation for him as if he were ordinarily resident in their area.
(4)Subject to and in accordance with the scheme under section twenty-one of this Act, a local authority shall have power, as respects a person ordinarily resident in the area of another local authority, with the consent of that other authority to provide residential accommodation for him in any case where the authority would have a duty to provide such accommodation if he were ordinarily resident in their area.
(5)Where a person is provided with residential accommodation under this Part of this Act, he shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to continue to be ordinarily resident in the area in which he was ordinarily resident immediately before the residential accommodation was provided for him.
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