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Version date: 31 December 2020 - 14 May 2025
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Schedule 2, Part 2 Purposes (paras. 2-6)

Basic needs

2.

(1) To enable the basic needs of a designated person, or (in the case of an individual) any dependent family member of such a person, to be met.

(2) In the case of an individual in sub-paragraph (1), "basic needs" includes -

(a) medical needs;

(b) needs for -

(i) food;

(ii) payment of insurance premiums;

(iii) payment of tax;

(iv) rent or mortgage payments;

(v) utility payments.

(3) In the case of a person other than an individual in sub-paragraph (1), "basic needs" includes needs for -

(a) payment of insurance premiums;

(b) payment of reasonable fees for the provision of property management services;

(c) payment of remuneration, allowances or pensions of employees;

(d) payment of tax;