These Regulations amend regulation 21(3A) of the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (“the Income Support Regulations”) so as to provide that a person who is in residential accommodation provided by the Department of Health and Social Services (“the Department”) and who is still in such accommodation when that accommodation becomes a residential care home for the purpose of the Income Support Regulations, will be treated as being in residential accommodation, notwithstanding that the Department may no longer be under a duty to provide or make arrangements for providing accommodation for that person.
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