Paragraph 2

In section 22 of the National Assistance Act 1948, in subsection (5) (which provides that in assessing a person’s ability to pay for certain accommodation a local authority shall have regard to Part III of Schedule 1 to the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976) for the words from “Part III" onwards there shall be substituted the words “ regulations made by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this subsection" ”, and subsection (9) (under which payments of benefit may be diverted to a local authority to discharge a liability in respect of accommodation provided by that authority) shall cease to have effect.

Section 27 of that Act (under which among other things questions as to the circumstances of a person applying for accommodation under the Act may be referred to the Supplementary Benefits Commission) shall cease to have effect.

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