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- Pwynt Penodol mewn Amser (04/11/1996)
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(1)Where a local authority provide any service under section 17 or 18, other than advice, guidance or counselling, they may recover from a person specified in subsection (4) such charge for the service as they consider reasonable.
(2)Where the authority are satisfied that that person’s means are insufficient for it to be reasonably practicable for him to pay the charge, they shall not require him to pay more than he can reasonably be expected to pay.
(3)No person shall be liable to pay any charge under subsection (1) at any time when he is in receipt of income support [F1, family credit or] disability working allowance under the [F2Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992][F3or of an income-based jobseeker’s allowance].
(4)The persons are—
(a)where the service is provided for a child under sixteen, each of his parents;
(b)where it is provided for a child who has reached the age of sixteen, the child himself; and
(c)where it is provided for a member of the child’s family, that member.
(5)Any charge under subsection (1) may, without prejudice to any other method of recovery, be recovered summarily as a civil debt.
(6)Part III of Schedule 2 makes provision in connection with contributions towards the maintenance of children who are being looked after by local authorities and consists of the re-enactment with modifications of provisions in Part V of the M1Child Care Act 1980.
(7)Where a local authority provide any accommodation under section 20(1) for a child who was (immediately before they began to look after him) ordinarily resident within the area of another local authority, they may recover from that other authority any reasonable expenses incurred by them in providing the accommodation and maintaining him.
(8)Where a local authority provide accommodation under section 21(1) or (2)(a) or (b) for a child who is ordinarily resident within the area of another local authority and they are not maintaining him in—
(a)a community home provided by them;
(b)a controlled community home; or
(c)a hospital vested in the Secretary of State [F4or any other hospital made available pursuant to arrangements made by a [F5Health Authority]],
they may recover from that other authority any reasonable expenses incurred by them in providing the accommodation and maintaining him.
(9)Where a local authority comply with any request under section 27(2) in relation to a child or other person who is not ordinarily resident within their area, they may recover from the local authority in whose area the child or person is ordinarily resident any [F6reasonable expenses] incurred by them in respect of that person.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 29(3) substituted (19.11.1991 for certain purposes, 10.3.1992 for certain purposes and otherwise 6.4.1992) by Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991 (c. 21, SIF 113:1), s. 7, Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 14; S.I. 1991/2617, art. 2(b)(e)(f), Sch.
F2Words in s. 29(3) substituted (1.7.1992) by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), ss. 4, 7(2), Sch. 2 para 108(b).
F3Words in s. 29(3) added (7.10.1996) by 1995 c. 18, s. 41(4), Sch. 2 para. 19(3); S.I. 1996/2208, art. 2
F4Words in s. 29(8)(c) added by National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 66(1), Sch. 9 para. 36(3)
F5Words in s. 29(8)(c) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1), 2(3), Sch. 1 para. 118(6)(with Sch. 2 para. 6)
F6Words in s. 29(9) substituted (14.10.1991) by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1), s. 116, Sch. 16 para. 15; S.I. 1991/1883, art. 3, Sch.
Commencement Information
I1S. 29 in force at 14.10.1991 see s. 108(2)(3) and S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)
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