Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1978
Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.
Change 1
12 Separation of younger from older patients.
(1) Each authorised HSC trust shall use its best endeavours to secure that, so far as practicable, in any hospital for which it is responsible a person who is suffering from a condition of chronic illness or disability and who— (a) is in the hospital for the purpose of long-term care for that condition; or (b) normally resides elsewhere but is being cared for in the hospital because— (i) that condition is such as to preclude him from residing elsewhere without the assistance of some other person; and (ii) such assistance is for the time being not available, is not cared for in the hospital as an in-patient in any part of the hospital which is normally used wholly or mainly for the care of elderly persons, unless he is himself an elderly person. (2) The Head of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland shall in each year lay before the Northern Ireland Assembly a statement in such form as he considers appropriate of information as to any persons to whom subsection (1) of this section applies who, not being elderly persons, have been cared for in any hospital for which any authorised HSC trust is responsible in such a part of the hospital as is mentioned in that subsection. (3) In this section “elderly person” means a person who is aged sixty-five or more or is suffering from the effects of premature ageing. (4) In this section “authorised HSC trust” has the same meaning as in section 1.
12 Separation of younger from older patients.
(1) Each authorised HSC trust shall use its best endeavours to secure that, so far as practicable, in any hospital for which it is responsible a person who is suffering from a condition of chronic illness or disability and who— (a) is in the hospital for the purpose of long-term care for that condition; or (b) normally resides elsewhere but is being cared for in the hospital because— (i) that condition is such as to preclude him from residing elsewhere without the assistance of some other person; and (ii) such assistance is for the time being not available, is not cared for in the hospital as an in-patient in any part of the hospital which is normally used wholly or mainly for the care of elderly persons, unless he is himself an elderly person. (2) The Head of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland shall in each year lay before the Northern Ireland Assembly a statement in such form as he considers appropriate of information as to any persons to whom subsection (1) of this section applies who, not being elderly persons, have been cared for in any hospital for which any authorised HSC trust is responsible in such a part of the hospital as is mentioned in that subsection. (3) In this section “elderly person” means a person who is aged sixty-five or more or is suffering from the effects of premature ageing. (4) In this section “authorised HSC trust” has the same meaning as in section 1.
One line that says what changes, such as "Halve the dog tax".
Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.
A proposal here is not law. Support on Solon is evidence that people want the change; the official route says what it takes to make it law.
Sign in to file your proposal. What you have written stays on this page.
Sign in to file itThink it through
Ask what your change would do, who would gain and who would bear a cost, and where something like it is already law. The assistant reads your draft as it stands, cites the law and the studies it finds, and takes no side. What you file stays yours.