The Regulation of Care (Registration and Registers) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 148

SOCIAL CARE

The Regulation of Care (Registration and Registers) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003

Made

6th March 2003

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

10th March 2003

Coming into force

1st April 2003

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 28(1)(b) and (c) of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and having consulted such persons and groups of persons as they consider appropriate in accordance with section 28(3) of that Act, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Regulation of Care (Registration and Registers) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st April 2003.

(2) In these Regulations–

“the principal Regulations” means the Regulation of Care (Registration and Registers) (Scotland) Regulations 2002(2).

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.—(1) In each of the following provisions of the principal Regulations after “care service” insert “or limited registration service”:–

(a) regulation 1(2);

(b) regulation 3(c);

(c) regulation 3(f); and

(d) paragraphs 2, 3 (in both places where there is a reference to a care service), 4, 6 and 7 of the Schedule.

(2) In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations insert at the end “and for limited registration services”.

(3) In regulation 3(d) of the principal Regulations insert at the end “or whether the service has been registered as a limited registration service”.

FRANCIS McAVEETY

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh

6th March 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend The Regulation of Care (Registration and Registers) (Scotland) Regulations 2002 (“the principal Regulations”).

The Regulations apply the principal Regulations to limited registration services. They extend the definition of provider in the principal Regulations to include a limited registration service (regulation 2(1)(a)). They also provide that the Care Commission is to maintain a separate register in respect of providers of a limited registration service (regulation 2(3)) and that register shall contain certain particulars (regulation 2(1)(d)). They further provide that a certificate of registration, where it relates to a limited registration service, is to contain certain information (regulation 2(1)(b) and (c)).

(1)

2001 asp 8; see section 77(1) for the definition of “regulations”.

(2)

S.S.I. 2002/115.