- Y Diweddaraf sydd Ar Gael (Diwygiedig)
- Pwynt Penodol mewn Amser (27/09/1999)
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(1)The local authority [F2empowered] 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). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3
(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 [F2power] to provide residential accommodation for him as if he were ordinarily resident in their area.
(4)Subject to and in accordance with the [F2arrangements] 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.
[F4(6)For the purposes of the provision of residential accommodation under this Part of this Act, a [F5patient in a hospital vested in the Secretary of State or an NHS trust shall] be deemed to be ordinarily resident in the area, if any, in which he was ordinarily resident immediately before he was admitted as a patient to the hospital, whether or not he in fact continues to be ordinarily resident in that area.]
[F6(7)In subsection (6) above “NHS trust” means a National Health Service trust established under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 or under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.]]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 24 repealed (S.) by Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c. 49), Sch. 9 Pt. I;
F2Word substituted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 195(6), Sch. 23 para. 2(2)
F3S. 24(2) repealed by Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 (c. 48), s. 20(4), Sch.
F4S. 24(6) added retrospectively by National Assistance (Amendment) Act 1959 (c. 30), s. 1(1)(3)
F5Words substituted by National Health Service and Commnity Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 66(1), Sch. 9 para. 5(4)(a)
F6S. 24(7) added by National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 66(1), Sch. 9 para. 5(4)(b)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 24 extended by Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 (c. 42), s. 2(1), Sch. 1
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