Long-Term Care
(Health and Social Services Charges) (Jersey) Law 2014
Official
Consolidated Version
This is an official
version of consolidated legislation compiled and issued under the authority of
the Legislation (Jersey) Law 2021.
20.570
Showing the law
from 1 January 2019 to Current
Long-Term Care
(Health and Social Services Charges) (Jersey) Law 2014
A LAW for the charging of fees for
long-term care services the provision of which is administered or arranged by
the Minister for Health and Social Services and for related purposes.
Commencement [see endnotes]
1 Interpretation
In this Law –
“accommodation services” means the provision of
accommodation, including meals and other services incidental to the provision
of accommodation;
“long-term care services” means services, including any
accommodation services, provided to a person who has attained the age
of 18 years for the purpose of providing to that person permanent
help with activities that are an essential part of normal daily living (such as
bathing, dressing, grooming, and eating), the provision of such services being
arranged, administered or supplied by the Minister (whether or not the person
has been assessed as being in need of long-term care under the Long-Term Care (Jersey)
Law 2012);
“Minister” means the Minister for Health and Social
Services;
“permanent” means continuing, or likely to continue, for
the rest of a person’s life.
2 Power
to charge for long-term care services
(1) The Minister may, by
Order, provide for the making and recovery by the Minister in such manner and
in such circumstances as may be specified in the Order, of such charges as may
be prescribed for long-term care services.
(2) An Order under
paragraph (1) may be made only after consultation with the Minister for
Social Security.
(3) Without prejudice to
the generality of paragraph (1), such an Order may –
(a) prescribe
charges with reference to different descriptions of particular long term care
services as may be specified in the Order whether by reference to different
levels of care or other criteria;
(b) provide
for the remission or deferment of the whole or part of any charges in such
circumstances as may be specified in the Order.
(4) No person shall be
charged for long-term care services provided to him or her unless the person
has been assessed by or on behalf of the Minister as requiring such services.
(5) An Order under this
Article may make such transitional, consequential, incidental or supplementary
provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the
purposes of the Order.
3 Recovery
of charges as a civil debt
Without prejudice to any other method of recovery, the Minister may
recover as a civil debt any charges payable in accordance with an Order under
Article 2.
4 Citation
This Law may be cited as the Long-Term Care (Health and Social Services
Charges) (Jersey) Law 2014.