F179E Applications for registration.E+W
(1)A person who wishes to be registered under this Part shall make an application to the registration authority.
(2)The application shall—
(a)give prescribed information about prescribed matters;
(b)give any other information which the registration authority reasonably requires the applicant to give.
[F2(c)be accompanied by the prescribed fee.]
(3)Where a person provides, or proposes to provide, day care on different premises, he shall make a separate application in respect of each of them.
(4)Where the registration authority has sent the applicant notice under section 79L(1) of its intention to refuse an application under this section, the application may not be withdrawn without the consent of the authority.
(5)A person who, in an application under this section, knowingly makes a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 79E inserted ((E.) 16.3.2001 for certain purposes otherwise 2.7.2001 and (W.) 1.7.2001 for certain purposes otherwise 1.4.2002) by 2000 c. 14, s. 79(1); S.I. 2001/1210, art. 2(a)(ii); S.I. 2001/2041, art. 2(1)(a)(2)(3) (with transitional provisions and savings in Sch.); S.I. 2001/2190, art. 2, Sch.; S.I. 2002/920, art. 3(3)(b) (subject to transitional provisions in Schs. 1-3)
F2S. 79E(2)(c) inserted (3.10.2005 for E. and 1.4.2006 for W.) by Children Act 2004 (c. 31), s. 48, Sch. 4 para. 3(1); S.I. 2005/2298, art. 2(1) (subject to art. 2(2)); S.I. 2006/885, art. 2(2)(c)