Long-Term Care
(States Contribution) (Jersey) Regulations 2013
Official
Consolidated Version
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the Legislation (Jersey) Law 2021.
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Long-Term Care
(States Contribution) (Jersey) Regulations 2013
1 Obligation
of States to contribute annually to costs of long-term care
There shall, for 2016 and every subsequent year, be paid into
the Long-Term Care Fund from the Consolidated Fund an amount determined in
accordance with these Regulations (referred to in these Regulations as the
“States contribution”).
2 Calculation
of States contribution for 2016
(1) Subject to paragraph (2),
the States contribution for 2016 is the product of the following
formula –
A x (1+B)
Where –
(a) A is
the base figure described in paragraph (3); and
(b) B is
the percentage rise, over the period of 24 months ending mid-March
in 2015, in the Jersey All Items Retail Price Index produced by the Office
of the Chief Statistician constituted under Article 5(1) of the Statistics and Census (Jersey) Law 2018.[1]
(2) If “B” in
paragraph (1)(b) is nil or a negative amount, the States contribution
for 2016 is the base figure described in paragraph (3).
(3) The base figure is the
sum of the following amounts –
(a) the
saving in revenue expenditure that would have been made by the Health and
Social Services Department for the whole of 2014 if the provision of
benefits had commenced under the Long-Term Care (Jersey) Law 2012 on 1st January 2014
instead of on 1st July 2014;
(b) the
increase in income that the Health and Social Services Department would have
received for the whole of 2014 if the provision of benefits had commenced
under the Long-Term Care (Jersey) Law 2012 on 1st January 2014
instead of on 1st July 2014, and the amount of charges made under the Hospital
Charges (Long-Stay Patients (Jersey) Law 1999, or any enactment that
repeals and replaces it, had been increased on 1st January 2014; and
(c) the
whole of the revenue expenditure allocated for 2014 to payments under
Article 9 of the Income Support (Transitional Provisions) (Jersey)
Order 2008, or any enactment that replaces it, that would not have been spent
by the Social Security Department for the whole of 2014 if the provision
of benefits had commenced under the Long-Term Care (Jersey) Law 2012 on 1st January 2014
instead of on 1st July 2014.
3 Calculation
of States contribution for 2017 and ensuing years
(1) Subject to paragraph (2),
the States contribution for 2017 or any subsequent year (a
“contribution year”) is the product of the following
formula –
A x (1+B)
Where –
(a) A is
the States contribution for the year preceding the contribution year; and
(b) B is
the percentage rise, over the period of 12 months ending mid-March in the year
preceding the contribution year, in the Jersey All Items Retail Price Index
produced by the Office of the Chief Statistician constituted under
Article 5(1) of the Statistics and Census (Jersey) Law 2018.[2]
(2) If “B” in
paragraph (1)(b) is nil or a negative amount, the States contribution for
the contribution year is the same as the States contribution for the preceding
year.
(3) [3]
4 Citation
These Regulations may be cited as the Long-Term Care (States
Contribution) (Jersey) Regulations 2013.