After regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations , the following regulation is inserted:3A. Meaning of nursing-home-type patient
(1) For the purposes of these regulations, a person is a nursing-home-type patient on a day if he or she is in a public hospital being provided with accommodation and nursing care on that day and the day is a chargeable day.(2) For the purposes of subregulation (1) , a person is in a public hospital being provided with accommodation and nursing care on a day that is a chargeable day if he or she is a patient in a public hospital being provided with accommodation and nursing care on that day and the day (a) occurs in a continuous period of more than 35 days in which the patient is in a hospital being provided with accommodation and nursing care; and(b) is not a day in the first 35 days of that continuous period; and(c) is not a day to which relates a certificate from a medical practitioner to the effect that the patient is in need of acute care.(3) For the purpose of ascertaining whether a patient is in a public hospital being provided with accommodation and nursing care on a day that occurs in a continuous period, there is to be taken into account (a) any period, during which that patient was provided with accommodation and nursing care as a patient in that hospital, or in another hospital, that occurs before that day and that forms one continuous period with that day; or(b) if there are 2 or more periods, during which that patient was provided with accommodation and nursing care as a patient in that hospital, or in another hospital, that occur before that day and that form one continuous period with one another and with that day those earlier periods.(4) For the purposes of subregulation (3)(a) and (b) , 2 periods are to be taken to form one continuous period with one another.(a) that are periods during which a patient is provided with accommodation and nursing care as a patient in a hospital (whether or not the same hospital); and(b) that are separated from each other by a period of not more than 7 days during which the patient was not provided with accommodation and nursing care as a patient in any hospital