6(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.