{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/partnership-arrangements-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/partnership-arrangements-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1989",
  "legislation_title": "The Partnership Arrangements (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/partnership-arrangements-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Establishment and maintenance of pooled funds",
  "text": "(1) Partnership bodies for each of the regional partnership board areas must establish and maintain—\n(a) a ... pooled fund in relation to the exercise of their care home accommodation functions for older people, and\n(b) a pooled fund in relation to the exercise of their family support functions.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Nothing in this regulation prevents partnership bodies from establishing and maintaining pooled funds or regional pooled funds for carrying out any other functions specified in Schedule 1.\n(4) If any of the partnership bodies decide to exercise their functions jointly in response to the assessment carried out under section 14 of the Act, they must consider whether it is appropriate to establish and maintain a pooled fund.\n(5) For the purposes of this regulation—\n“care home” (“cartref gofal”) means premises 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 persons aged 18 or over;\n“care home accommodation functions for older people” (“swyddogaethau llety cartref gofal pobl hŷn”) means —\n(a)the functions of a local authority under sections 35 and 36 of the Act, where these are exercised in relation to older people to provide accommodation in care homes;\n(b)the functions of a Local Health Board under section 3 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 where they are exercised in relation to older people who—\n(i)have a primary need for health care which is met by arranging the provision of accommodation together with nursing in care homes, or\n(ii)do not have a primary need for health care but who have needs which can only be met by the local authority arranging for the provision of accommodation together with nursing in a care home.\n“regional pooled fund” (“cronfa gyfun ranbarthol”) means a single pooled fund into which each of the partnership bodies for a regional partnership board area make contributions.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 substituted (1.4.2019) by The Partnership Arrangements and Population Assessments (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/760), regs. 1(2), 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 19(1)(a) omitted (31.3.2025) by virtue of The Partnership Arrangements (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/388), regs. 1(2), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 19(2) omitted (31.3.2025) by virtue of The Partnership Arrangements (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/388), regs. 1(2), 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1989/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:10.275277+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."
}