Regulation 7 Special provisions in respect of persons under pensionable age

(1)

Regulation 6 shall cease to apply to a person in circumstances where–

(a)

on or after 1st April 1993 he attains pensionable age; and

(b)

the local authority has not, before he attains pensionable age, accepted responsibility for making arrangements to provide him with accommodation.

(2)

If on or after 1st April 1993 a person to whom regulation 6 applies (for the purposes of this regulation called “the resident”)–

(a)

approaches a local authority for assistance with arranging accommodation immediately after having been evicted from relevant premises;

(b)

will not be allowed to return to live in relevant premises from which he is temporarily absent; or

(c)

has been served with a notice to quit the relevant premises in which he is ordinarily resident,

for any reason other than that those premises have ceased or are about to cease to operate as a residential care home or a nursing home, no accommodation is to be provided for him in any premises which are owned or managed by any person who owned or managed the unavailable premises.