The Care Standards Act 2000 (Commencement No. 7 (England) and Transitional, Transitory and Savings Provisions) Order 2001

Powers and duties of the local authority in relation to registration during the second transitional period

6.—(1) Each local authority shall continue to keep a register of—

(a) persons who act as child minders on domestic premises within the authority’s area; and

(b) persons who provide day care for children under the age of eight on premises (other than domestic premises) within that area.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) and to paragraphs 9 and 14, the register shall contain—

(a) any person whose registration is, by virtue of paragraph 3(1), to be treated as continuing; and

(b) any person whose application for registration under section 71 is granted by the local authority during the second transitional period.

(3) For the avoidance of doubt, no person who would be disqualified from registration if, after the appointed day, the provisions of the Disqualification for Caring for Children Regulations 1991(1) were applied in his case may be registered under sub-paragraph (2)(b).

(4) No person may be registered under sub-paragraph (2)(b) if the child care in respect of the provision of which he has applied for registration would not, in all the circumstances of his case, require him to be registered for the purposes of Part XA.

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S.I. 1991/2094, amended by S.I. 1997/2308.