The Care Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) Order 2015

National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 2003

21.—(1) The National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 2003(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)—

(a) in the definition of “capital limit”, for paragraph (a), substitute—

“(a) in the case of a person who lives permanently in—

(i) a care home, or

(ii) accommodation provided by a local authority under Part 1 of the Care Act 2014 (care and support),

is the amount prescribed in regulation 12(1) of the Care and Support (Charging and Assessment of Resources) Regulations 2014, and”(2);

(b) omit the definitions of “full rate” and “standard rate”.

(3) In regulation 5(2)(a), for paragraph (ii) to the end, substitute—

“(ii) accommodation provided by a local authority under Part 1 of the Care Act 2014 (care and support),

where the personal budget for the person under section 26 of that Act specifies that the local authority must itself pay towards the cost of that accommodation;”.

(4) Column 2 of Table B in Schedule 1 (modifications of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987) is amended as follows—

(a) in the entry for regulation 18, in the inserted regulation 19A, for “sections 21 to 24 and 26 of the National Assistance Act 1948”, substitute “Part 1 of the Care Act 2014 (care and support)”;

(b) in the entry for Schedule 3, in the substituted paragraph 4, for “sections 21 to 24 and 26 of the National Assistance Act” substitute “Part 1 of the Care Act 2014 (care and support)”;

(c) in the entry for Schedule 7, for “sections 21 to 24 and 26 of the National Assistance Act 1948” in the three places it occurs, substitute “Part 1 of the Care Act 2014 (care and support)”.

(1)

S.I. 2003/2382; there are amendments to regulation 2 and to Table B in Schedule 1 which are not relevant to this instrument.

(2)

S.I. 2014/2672. These Regulations are to come into force in accordance with regulation 1.