SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 3Discharge of hospital patients with care and support needs
6Adjustments between local authorities
1
Regulations may modify, or otherwise make provision about, the application of a provision of this Schedule in a case where it appears to the NHS body responsible for a hospital patient that the patient is ordinarily resident in the area of another local authority.
2
The regulations may, in particular, authorise or require a local authority—
a
to accept an assessment notice given to it even though it may wish to dispute that it was the correct authority to which to give the notice;
b
to become the relevant authority in the patient’s case;
c
to recover expenditure incurred—
i
in the exercise of functions under this Schedule;
ii
in meeting needs under sections 18 to 20 in a case under this Schedule.