Part 4 Social Care

Measures to increase availability of Part 3 accommodation

I156 Cross-border placements

1

Regulations may make provision for and in connection with authorising a local authority to make arrangements under section 21 of the 1948 Act for a person to be provided with residential accommodation in Scotland, Northern Ireland, any of the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.

2

Regulations under this section may, in particular, make provision—

a

specifying conditions which must be satisfied before a local authority make any arrangements in pursuance of the regulations in respect of a person;

b

for the application of provisions of the 1948 Act in relation to—

i

any such arrangements, or

ii

the person in respect of whom any such arrangements are made,

with or without modifications.