The Regulation and Improvement Authority (Registration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

PART III CERTIFICATES OF REGISTRATION

Registers

8.—(1) The Regulation and Improvement Authority shall keep a register in respect of each description of establishment or agency specified in Article 8(1) or (2) of the Order.

(2) Each register shall contain, in relation to each establishment or agency in respect of which a person’s application for registration has been granted –

(a) the particulars specified in Part I of Schedule 6; and

(b) the particulars specified in respect of the register in Part II of that Schedule.

(3) Article 33(1) and (2) of the Order (provision of copies of register) shall not apply to any part of the register relating to childrens homes which consists of the restricted part of the address of any childrens homes.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3), the restricted part of the address of a childrens home is the whole address except the name of the childrens home.

Contents of certificate

9.  Where the Regulation and Improvement Authority is required to issue a certificate of registration it shall ensure that the certificate contains the following particulars –

(a) the name, address and telephone number of the Regulation and Improvement Authority;

(b) the name and address of the person who has been registered as the person who carries on the establishment or agency;

(c) where the person is an organisation, the name of the responsible individual;

(d) the name of the person registered as the manager of the establishment or agency;

(e) the description of the establishment or agency by reference to the description of establishment or agency specified in section 8(1) or (2) of the Order;

(f) where the registration is subject to any condition, details of the condition including any requirement in the condition as to –

(i) the facilities or services that are to be provided;

(ii) the number of service users for whom accommodation or services may be provided;

(iii) the description of persons to whom facilities or services are to be provided;

(iv) any period of time within which the condition is to be fulfilled;

(v) the number and description of persons working at any specified place and time;

(g) the date of registration;

(h) a statement that if an establishment or agency is not carried on in accordance with the requirements and conditions specified in the certificate, the registration is liable to be cancelled by the Regulation and Improvement Authority;

(i) a statement that the certificate relates only to the person to whom it is issued by the Regulation and Improvement Authority and is not capable of being transferred to another person.

Return of certificate

10.  If the registration of a person in respect of an establishment or agency is cancelled, he shall, not later than the day on which the decision or order cancelling the registration takes effect, return the certificate of registration to the Regulation and Improvement Authority by –

(a) delivering it, in person to the Regulation and Improvement Authority; or

(b) sending it to the Regulation and Improvement Authority by registered post or by recorded delivery.

Offence

11.—(1) A failure to comply with regulation 10 shall be an offence.

(2) The Regulation and Improvement Authority shall not bring proceedings against a person in respect of any failure to comply with that regulation unless –

(a) the Regulation and Improvement Authority has served a notice on the person specifying –

(i) details of the person’s failure to comply with that regulation, and

(ii) the period not exceeding one month, within which the person may make representations to the Regulation and Improvement Authority about the notice, and

(b) the period specified in the notice, beginning with and including the date of the notice, has expired.