Income Support (Amendment No. 11) (Jersey) Regulations 2014

Income Support (Amendment No. 11) (Jersey) Regulations 2014

Made                                                                           17th June 2014

Coming into force                              in accordance with Regulation 4

THE STATES, in pursuance of Articles 5 and 18 of the Income Support (Jersey) Law 2007[1], have made the following Regulations –

1        Interpretation

In these Regulations, “principal Regulations” means the Income Support (Jersey) Regulations 2007[2].

2        Regulation 1 amended

In Regulation 1 of the principal Regulations –

(a)     the number “(1)” at the beginning of paragraph (1) shall be deleted;

(b)     before the definition “bedsit” there shall be inserted the following definition –

“ ‘approved care home’ has the same meaning as in the Long-Term Care (Jersey) Law 2012[3];”;

(c)     after the definition “Law” there shall be inserted the following definition –

“ ‘long-term care’ means an appropriate level of standard care within the meaning of the Long-Term Care (Benefits) (Jersey) Order 2014[4];”;

(d)     the definition “residential care” shall be deleted;

(e)     paragraph (2) shall be deleted.

3        Schedule 1 amended

In Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations –

(a)     for paragraph 1(1)(c) there shall be substituted the following clauses –

“(c)    during any continuous period of more than 4 weeks when the member is provided with board and lodging at public expense;

(ca)    during any period when the member is receiving long-term care in an approved care home; or”;

(b)     in paragraph 3(1)(c) for the words “not receiving residential care” there shall be substituted the words “not receiving long-term care in an approved care home”;

(c)     for paragraph 6(3)(c) for the words “not receiving appropriate residential care” there shall be substituted the words “not receiving long-term care”;

(d)     in paragraph 7(2) for the words “receiving residential care” there shall be substituted the words “receiving long-term care in an approved care home”.

4        Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Income Support (Amendment No. 11) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 and shall come into force on the same day that Parts 3 and 4 of the Long-Term Care (Jersey) Law 2012 come into force.

m.n. de la haye, o.b.e.

Greffier of the States

 


 



[1]                                    chapter 26.550

[2]                                    chapter 26.550.30

[3]                                    chapter 26.600

[4]                                    R&O.43/2014


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