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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-care-homes-and-independent-hospitals-regulations-2005/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2687",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Care Homes and Independent Hospitals) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-care-homes-and-independent-hospitals-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In regulation 78 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the household)—\n(a) in paragraph (3)(d) for “in residential accommodation or a residential care home or a nursing home” substitute “ residing in a care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital ”;\n(b) in paragraph (5)(c) omit “provided under any of the provisions referred to in any of the sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) of the definition of residential accommodation in regulation 85”;\n(c) in paragraph (9) before sub-paragraph (a) insert—\n“(za) “accommodation” means accommodation provided by a local authority in a home owned or managed by that local authority—\n(i) under sections 21 to 24 of the National Assistance Act 1948 (provision of accommodation); or\n(ii) in Scotland, under section 13B or 59 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (provision of residential or other establishment); or\n(iii) under section 25 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (care and support services etc.);\nwhere the accommodation is provided for a person whose stay in that accommodation has become other than temporary;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2687/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:19.167819+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."
}