UKPGA-1998-19 — Community Care (Residential Accommodation) Act 1998

preamble

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

s. 1 — Restriction on capital taken into account when determining need for residential accommodation.

In section 21 of the National Assistance Act 1948 (duty of local authorities to provide residential accommodation for elderly persons etc. in need of care and attention), after subsection (2) there shall be inserted—

s. 2 — Restriction on capital taken into account when determining need for residential accommodation: Scotland.

In section 12 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (general social welfare services), after subsection (3) there shall be inserted—

s. 3 — Short title, commencement, and extent.

s. 3(1)

This Act may be cited as the Community Care (Residential Accommodation) Act 1998.

s. 3(2)

This Act shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which it is passed.

s. 3(3)

Section 1 extends to England and Wales only.

s. 3(4)

Section 2 extends to Scotland only.

s. 3(5)

This section extends to England and Wales and Scotland.