The Social Security (Residential Care Homes, Nursing Homes and Independent Hospitals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

9.  In Schedule 2 (housing costs)—

(a)in paragraph 3(13) (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home) for head (c) there shall be substituted the following head—

(c)“residential accommodation” means accommodation which is a residential care home, a nursing home, an Abbeyfield Home, or an independent hospital;;

(b)in paragraph 4(1) (housing costs not met), in head (b)(1) for “in accommodation which is a residential care home or a nursing home except where he is in such accommodation” there shall be substituted “living in a residential care home, nursing home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital except where he is living in such a home or hospital”.

(1)

Head (b) was amended by regulation 2(5) of, and paragraph 54(4)(a) of Schedule 2 to, S.R. 2000 No. 350