The Secretary of State may make regulations as to the conduct of nursing homes and mental nursing homes, and such regulations may in particular—
(a)make provision as to the facilities and services to be provided in such homes;
(b)make provision as to the giving of notice by a person registered in respect of such a home of periods during which he or, if he is not in charge of the home, the person who is in charge of it, proposes to be absent from the home;
(c)specify the information to be supplied in such a notice;
(d)provide for the making of adequate arrangements for the running of such a home during a period when the person in charge of it is absent from it;
(e)provide that a contravention of or failure to comply with any specified provision of the regulations shall be an offence against the regulations.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 26: transfer of functions (E.) (1.4.2001) by S.I. 2001/747, regs. 2(1), 3, 4, Sch. 1