Long-term Care Insurance (Guernsey) (Entitlement to Benefit) Ordinance, 2022

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The Long-term Care Insurance (Guernsey) (Entitlement to Benefit) Ordinance, 2022

THE STATES POLICY & RESOURCES COMMITTEE, in exercise of the powers conferred on the States by sections 3(1)(b) and 31 of the Long-term Care Insurance (Guernsey) Law, 2002[a], and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and in exercise of the powers conferred on the Committee by Article 66A(1) of the Reform (Guernsey) Law, 1948[b], hereby order:-

Alternative condition for entitlement to benefit under the Law.

1. (1) The condition for entitlement of a person to benefit under the Long-term Care Insurance (Guernsey) Law, 2002 ("the Law") set out in subsection (2) is hereby specified under section 3(1)(b) of the Law as an alternative condition to the condition specified in section 3(2)(e) of the Law, and section 3(2) of the Law shall be construed accordingly.

(2) The condition is that in the cases of care benefit and respite care benefit, the person concerned is a resident of an approved care establishment which has been specified by resolution of the Committee; and for the avoidance of the doubt, the Committee may specify an approved care establishment under this subsection which is wholly owned by the States.

Citation and commencement.

2. This Ordinance may be cited as the Long-term Care Insurance (Guernsey) (Entitlement to Benefit) Ordinance, 2022, and shall come into effect on 2^nd November 2022.

[a]	Ordres en Conseil Vol. XLII(2), p. 1230; this enactment has been amended.
[b]	Ordres en Conseil Vol. XIII, p.288; this enactment has been amended.