75 After-care under the Mental Health Act 1983
Care Act 2014 (2014 c 23) | Legislation

75  After-care under the Mental Health Act 1983

(1)     In section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (after-care), in subsection (2), after “to provide” insert “or arrange for the provision of”.

(2)     In subsection (2D) of that section, for the words from “as if” to the end substitute “as if the words “provide or” were omitted.”

(3)     In subsection (3) of that section, after “means the local social services authority” insert

“Ĕ

(a)     if, immediately before being detained, the person concerned was ordinarily resident in England, for the area in England in which he was ordinarily resident;

(b)     if, immediately before being detained, the person concerned was ordinarily resident in Wales, for the area in Wales in which he was ordinarily resident; or

(c)     in any other case”.

(4)     After that subsection insert—

“(4)     Where there is a dispute about where a person was ordinarily resident for the purposes of subsection (3) above—

(a)     if the dispute is between local social services authorities in England, section 40 of the Care Act 2014 applies to the dispute as it applies to a dispute about where a person was ordinarily resident for the purposes of Part 1 of that Act;

(b)

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