# The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Miscellaneous Consequential Amendments) Order 2010, Article 21: Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

In regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 (interpretation), for the definition of “independent hospital” in paragraph (1), substitute—
““independent hospital”—
(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;
(b) in Wales, has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000; and
(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;”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/1881/article/21 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008-miscellaneous-consequential-amendments-order-2010/article-21
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