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20 Power of local authority to limit charge for residential accommodation to minimum rate.E+W+S
(1)In the National Assistance Act 1948—
(a)the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (5) of section 22 (charges to be made for accommodation)—
“(5A)If they think fit, an authority managing premises in which accommodation is provided for a person shall have power on each occasion when they provide accommodation for him irrespective of his means, to limit to the minimum weekly rate prescribed under subsection (3) above the payments required from him for his accommodation during a period commencing when they begin to provide the accommodation for him and ending not more than eight weeks after that.”; and
(b)in section 26(4) (which applies certain provisions of section 22) after the word “Subsections” there shall be inserted the word “(5A),”.
(2)In section 87(3) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 there shall be inserted after the word “(4)” the words “(as amended by section 20 of the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983)”.
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