Article 21 Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006I1

In regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 (interpretation)^f1, for the definition of “independent hospital” in paragraph (1), substitute—

• ““independent hospital”—

  1. (a)

     in England, means a hospital as defined by section 275 of the National Health Service Act 2006 that is not a health service hospital as defined by that section;

  2. (b)

     in Wales, has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000; and

  3. (c)

     in Scotland, means an independent healthcare service as defined in section 2(5)(a) and (b) of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001;”.