{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-social-services-preserved-rights-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-social-services-preserved-rights-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2002/136",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Social Services (Preserved Rights) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-social-services-preserved-rights-regulations-northern-ireland-2002",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Ordinarily resident",
  "text": "(1) A person is to be treated as ordinarily resident in any premises for the purposes of section 1 if he is in fact resident in such premises or if he is temporarily absent from such premises.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation “temporarily absent” means absent for a period which does not exceed—\n(a) unless throughout the period of absence the person was a patient—\n(i) 4 weeks, where he was before his absence a temporary resident in relevant premises;\n(ii) 13 weeks, where he was before his absence a permanent resident in relevant premises;\n(b) 52 weeks, where throughout the period of absence the person was a patient.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation—\n(a) a “patient” means a person (other than a prisoner) who is regarded as receiving free in-patient treatment within the meaning of the Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975; and\n(b) a person is a permanent resident in relevant premises where those premises are his principal place of abode, and a temporary resident where they are not.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1975 No. 109; Relevant amending instruments are S.R. 1987 No. 391 and S.R. 1992 No. 453"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/136/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:07:56.191456+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."
}