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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/schedule-3/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/schedule-3/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2017/176",
  "legislation_title": "The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Moving into accommodation following a stay in hospital or a residential care home, nursing home or independent hospital",
  "text": "(1) The claimant is to be treated as having occupied accommodation before he or she moved into it where—\n(a) the claimant has since moved in and, immediately before the move, the claimant was liable to make payments in respect of that accommodation; and\n(b) the liability to make the payments arose while the claimant was a patient or accommodated in a residential care home, nursing home or independent hospital (or, in the case of joint claimants, where both individuals were patients or were accommodated in a residential care home, nursing home or independent hospital).\n(2) No claimant may be treated as occupying the accommodation under this paragraph for more than one month.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/176/schedule/3/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:51:28.382665+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}