# The Residential Accommodation (Relevant Premises, Ordinary Residence and Exemptions) Regulations 1993, Regulation 9: Special provisions in respect of persons over pensionable age


(1) Regulation 8 shall apply only to a person who–
(a) on or after 1st April 1993–
(i) approaches a local authority for assistance with arranging accommodation immediately after having been evicted from a residential care home,
(ii) will not be allowed to return to live in a residential care home from which he is temporarily absent, or
(iii) has been served with a notice to quit the residential care home in which he is ordinarily resident; and
(b) is assessed by a local authority as needing accommodation in premises which are not a nursing home,
but 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.
(2) If on or after 1st April 1993 a person to whom regulation 8 applies (for the purposes of this paragraph 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 oridinarily 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/477/regulation/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/residential-accommodation-relevant-premises-ordinary-residence-and-exemptions-regulations-1993/regulation-9
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