OpenLegislation

Paragraph 47 F1

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Regulations may—

(a)

require an eligibility assessor to request a best interests assessor to provide relevant eligibility information, and

(b)

require the best interests assessor, if such a request is made, to provide such relevant eligibility information as he may have.

(2)

In this paragraph—

  • “best interests assessor” means any person who is carrying out, or has carried out, a best interests assessment in relation to the relevant person;

  • “eligibility assessor” means a person carrying out an eligibility assessment in relation to the relevant person;

  • “relevant eligibility information” is information relevant to assessing whether or not the relevant person is ineligible by virtue of paragraph 5 of Schedule 1A.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. A1 inserted (1.4.2008 for certain purposes and otherwise 1.4.2009) by Mental Health Act 2007 (c. 12) , ss. 50 , 56 , Sch. 7 ; S.I. 2008/745 , art. 4(a) ; S.I. 2009/139 , art. 2(c) (with art. 3 , Sch. paras. 3 , 4 )