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The Care and Support (Ordinary Residence) (Specified Accommodation) (Wales) Regulations 2015

W.S.I. 2015/1499 · Made 7 July 2015 · Extends to England and Wales

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Social Care, Wales

Made 7 July 2015

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales 10 July 2015

Coming into force 6 April 2016

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 194(1) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014f1, make the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

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Contents

  1. 1Title, commencement, application and interpretation
  2. 2Specified types of accommodation
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Title, commencement, application and interpretationI1

(1)

The title of these Regulations is the Care and Support (Ordinary Residence) (Specified Accommodation) (Wales) Regulations 2015.

(2)

These Regulations come into force on 6 April 2016 and apply to Wales.

(3)

In these Regulations—

  • “the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014;

  • “care home accommodation” (“llety cartref gofal”) means accommodation F1at a place at which a care home service, within the meaning of Part 1 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016, is provided wholly or mainly to adults.

2Specified types of accommodationI1

(1)

For the purposes of section 194(1) of the Act (ordinary residence), care home accommodation is accommodation of a specified type.

Signature

Mark Drakeford

Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers

7 July 2015

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 194 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (“the Act”) makes provision for establishing a person’s ordinary residence. Section 194(1) makes provision about an adult’s ordinary residence in a case where an adult is living in accommodation of a specified type.

Where an adult has needs for care and support which can be met only by living in accommodation of a specified type and is living in accommodation of a specified type in Wales, the adult is to be treated (by virtue of section 194(1) of the Act) as ordinarily resident in the area in which the adult was ordinarily resident immediately before the adult began to live in the specified type of accommodation. If the adult was of no settled residence immediately before beginning to live in a specified type of accommodation, the adult is treated as ordinarily resident in the area in which the adult was present at the time.

These Regulations provide that care home accommodation is accommodation of a specified type for the purposes of section 194(1) of the Act.