# The Social Security Amendment (Residential Care and Nursing Homes) Regulations 2001, Paragraph 1


In regulation 1 (interpretation)—
(a) in paragraph (3), the definition of “preserved rights” shall be omitted;
(b) after paragraph (3E), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“(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—
(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—
(i) “patient” has the meaning it has in Schedule 5 by virtue of regulation 85; and
(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
(b) for the first three weeks of any other period of absence.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3767/schedule/part/II/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-amendment-residential-care-and-nursing-homes-regulations-2001/schedule/part-II/paragraph-1
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