Citation, commencement and application

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Act (Qualifying Services) (England) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 9th June 2003.

(2) These Regulations apply to England only.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations—

(a) “community equipment (aids and minor adaptations) service” means a qualifying service( 2 ) which consists of the provision of an aid, or a minor adaptation to property, for the purposes of assisting with nursing at home or aiding daily living; and, for the purposes of this paragraph, an adaptation is “minor” if the cost of making the adaptation is £1000 or less; and

(b) “intermediate care” means a qualifying service which consists of a structured programme of care provided for a limited period of time to assist a person to maintain or regain the ability to live in his home.

Qualifying services

3. The qualifying services prescribed for the purposes of section 15(1) of the Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Act 2003 are intermediate care and community equipment (aids and minor adaptations) services.

Qualifying services to be provided free of charge

4. —(1) A community equipment (aids and minor adaptations) service is required to be provided free of charge to any person to whom it is provided where the provision of that service begins on or after the date on which these regulations come into force.

(2) A period of intermediate care which begins on or after these regulations come into force is required to be provided free of charge to any person to whom it is provided for any period up to and including six weeks.