Clause 6. Eligibility for community costs payments

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Eligibility for community costs payments

(1)

A person is eligible for community costs payments under this programme if he or she is a resident (whether continuously or not) in 1 or more short-term residential treatment programmes for a period or total period of not more than 26 weeks within a 52-week period commencing on the date of the person's entry into the treatment programme or, as the case requires, the first treatment programme.

(2)

Where a resident has completed a period or total period of 26 weeks residence in 1 or more treatment programmes within the 52-week period referred to in subclause (1), MSD may, during 1 period of not more than 13 weeks or 13 weeks in total within that 52-week period, continue to treat the resident as an eligible person if MSD is satisfied-

(a)

it has been clinically determined the resident needs, and would benefit from, further treatment in the treatment programme; and

(b)

he or she continues to be a resident (whether continuously or not) in that treatment programme or in 1 or more other treatment programmes.