Care Act 2014

6 (1) Regulations may modify, or otherwise make provision about, the application of a provision of this Schedule in a case where it appears to the NHS body responsible for a hospital patient that the patient is ordinarily resident in the area of another local authority. E+W

(2) The regulations may, in particular, authorise or require a local authority—

(a) to accept an assessment notice given to it even though it may wish to dispute that it was the correct authority to which to give the notice;

(b) to become the relevant authority in the patient's case;

(c) to recover expenditure incurred—

(i) in the exercise of functions under this Schedule;

(ii) in meeting needs under sections 18 to 20 in a case under this Schedule.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 3 para. 6 in force at 1.10.2014 for specified purposes by S.I. 2014/2473, art. 2(1)(y)

I2 Sch. 3 para. 6 in force at 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2015/993, art. 2(s) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2015/995)