Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010

59 Registration of care services

(1) A person who seeks to provide a care service must apply to SCSWIS for registration of the service.

(2) An application must—

(a) give such information as may be prescribed about prescribed matters,

(b) identify an individual (who may be the applicant) who is to manage the service,

(c) give any other information which SCSWIS may reasonably require the applicant to give,

(d) without prejudice to subsection (1)(b) of section 76, be accompanied by the fee imposed under subsection (2)(a) of that section.

(3) A person who provides an adoption service or a fostering service must be a voluntary organisation.

(4) Subsections (1) to (3) do not apply to a local authority—

(a) seeking to provide—

(i) an adoption service mentioned in paragraph 8(1)(a) of schedule 12, or

(ii) a fostering service mentioned in paragraph 9(a) or (c) of that schedule, or

(b) seeking to provide a care service in respect of which it has made such determination as is mentioned in section 83(1)(c).

(5) Subsection (4)(b) is subject to section 83(3).