Regulation 3 Transitional provisions
Where resettlement benefit under regulation 15 of the principal Regulations is being paid to a person discharged from a hospital or similar institution on or before 11th April 1988, any benefit which has not been paid on that date shall be paid to that person in one sum.
Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) where a person (the payee) has been in a hospital or similar institution before, and is in a hospital or similar institution after, 11th April 1988 any resettlement benefit which would have been payable to him had he been discharged on 10th April 1988 shall be payable to him notwithstanding the revocation of regulation 15 of the principal Regulations.
Any resettlement benefit which is payable in accordance with paragraph (2) shall be paid in one sum upon the payee’s discharge where—
his discharge from the hospital or similar institution was effected by and with the approval of a person authorised or empowered to discharge him, and
he is neither receiving free in-patient treatment nor residing in prescribed accommodation
except where, having regard to the circumstances of any particular case, the Secretary of State decides that payment shall be made by specified instalments.
“Free in-patient treatment” has the meaning ascribed to it in regulation 2(2) of the principal Regulations and in this regulation “prescribed accommodation” means accommodation to which regulation 2(13)(d) of these Regulations refers.