SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE A1F1Hospital and care home residents: deprivation of liberty
F1Part 4Standard authorisations
Eligibility assessment
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An eligibility assessment is an assessment of whether the relevant person meets the eligibility requirement.
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Regulations may—
a
require an eligibility assessor to request a best interests assessor to provide relevant eligibility information, and
b
require the best interests assessor, if such a request is made, to provide such relevant eligibility information as he may have.
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In this paragraph—
“best interests assessor” means any person who is carrying out, or has carried out, a best interests assessment in relation to the relevant person;“eligibility assessor” means a person carrying out an eligibility assessment in relation to the relevant person;“relevant eligibility information” is information relevant to assessing whether or not the relevant person is ineligible by virtue of paragraph 5 of Schedule 1A.
Sch. A1 omitted (16.5.2019 for specified purposes) by virtue of Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 (c. 18), s. 6(3), Sch. 2 para. 2(c)