The Social Security Amendment (Residential Care and Nursing Homes) Regulations 2001

Amendment of the Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations 1991

3.  In the Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations 1991(1)—

(a)in regulation 7 (persons in certain accommodation other than hospitals)—

(i)in paragraph (1), for the words “regulations 7A and 8” there shall be substituted “regulation 8”;

(ii)paragraph (3)(b) (persons to whom regulations 7 and 8 apply, with modifications) shall be omitted;

(iii)in paragraph (4)—

(aa)the words “Subject to paragraph (4A),” shall be omitted;

(bb)in sub-paragraph (b), the words “and at least 4 other persons in that house are provided with board and personal care, excluding persons carrying on the house or employed there or their relatives” shall be omitted; and

(iv)paragraph (4A) shall be omitted;

(b)regulation 7A shall be omitted;

(c)the Schedule shall be omitted.

(1)

S.I.1991/2740; the relevant amending instruments are S.I.1992/2869 and 3147, 1993/518, 1994/1779, 1995/2162, 1999/2860 and 2000/1401.