{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-accommodation-relevant-premises-ordinary-residence-and-exemptions-regulations-1993/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-accommodation-relevant-premises-ordinary-residence-and-exemptions-regulations-1993/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/477",
  "legislation_title": "The Residential Accommodation (Relevant Premises, Ordinary Residence and Exemptions) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-accommodation-relevant-premises-ordinary-residence-and-exemptions-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Special provisions in respect of persons over pensionable age",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 8 shall apply only to a person who–\n(a) on or after 1st April 1993–\n(i) approaches a local authority for assistance with arranging accommodation immediately after having been evicted from a residential care home,\n(ii) will not be allowed to return to live in a residential care home from which he is temporarily absent, or\n(iii) has been served with a notice to quit the residential care home in which he is ordinarily resident; and\n(b) is assessed by a local authority as needing accommodation in premises which are not a nursing home,\nbut once a person has on any date satisfied sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of this paragraph, regulation 8 shall not thereafter cease to apply to that person from that date.\n(2) If on or after 1st April 1993 a person to whom regulation 8 applies (for the purposes of this paragraph called “the resident”)–\n(a) approaches a local authority for assistance with arranging accommodation immediately after having been evicted from relevant premises;\n(b) will not be allowed to return to live in relevant premises from which he is temporarily absent; or\n(c) has been served with a notice to quit the relevant premises in which he is oridinarily resident,\nfor 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev in pt (E) (1.6.2001)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1859",
      "affecting_title": "The Residential Accommodation (Relevant Premises, Ordinary Residence and Exemptions) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/477/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:03:42.042053+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."
}