{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-amendment-residential-care-and-nursing-homes-regulations-2001/schedule/part-II/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3767",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Amendment (Residential Care and Nursing Homes) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-amendment-residential-care-and-nursing-homes-regulations-2001",
  "path": "schedule/part/II/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In regulation 1 (interpretation)—\n(a) in paragraph (3), the definition of “preserved rights” shall be omitted;\n(b) after paragraph (3E), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(3F) For the purposes of these Regulations, where a person’s principal place of residence is a residential care home or a nursing home and he is temporarily absent from that home, he shall be regarded as continuing to reside in that home—\n(a) where he is absent because he is a patient, for the first six weeks of any such period of absence and for this purpose—\n(i) “patient” has the meaning it has in Schedule 5 by virtue of regulation 85; and\n(ii) periods of absence separated by not more than 28 days shall be treated as a single period of absence equal in duration to all those periods; and\n(b) for the first three weeks of any other period of absence.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3767/schedule/part/II/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:21:36.369695+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."
}