F1Part XA Child Minding and Day Care for Children in England and Wales
Registration
C1F279L Notice of intention to take steps.
1
Not less than 14 days before—
a
refusing an application for registration;
b
cancelling a registration;
c
removing or varying any condition to which a registration is subject or imposing a new condition; or
d
refusing to grant an application for the removal or variation of any condition to which a registration is subject,
the registration authority shall send to the applicant, or (as the case may be) registered person, notice in writing of its intention to take the step in question.
2
Every such notice shall—
a
give the authority’s reasons for proposing to take the step; and
b
inform the person concerned of his rights under this section.
3
Where the recipient of such a notice informs the authority in writing of his desire to object to the step being taken, the authority shall afford him an opportunity to do so.
4
Any objection made under subsection (3) may be made orally or in writing, by the recipient of the notice or a representative.
5
If the authority, after giving the person concerned an opportunity to object to the step being taken, decides nevertheless to take it, it shall send him written notice of its decision.
6
A step of a kind mentioned in subsection (1)(b) or (c) shall not take effect until the expiry of the time within which an appeal may be brought under section 79M or, where such an appeal is brought, before its determination.
7
Subsection (6) does not prevent a step from taking effect before the expiry of the time within which an appeal may be brought under section 79M if the person concerned notifies the registration authority in writing that he does not intend to appeal.
Pt. XA (ss. 79A-79X) inserted by 2000 c. 14, ss. 79(1), 122 (the insertion coming into force at 16.3.2001 for specified purposes for E., at 1.7.2001 for specified purposes for W., at 2.7.2001 for specified purposes for E., at 1.4.2002 for specified purposes for E., at 1.4.2002 otherwise for W., at 2.9.2002 for specified purposes for E., and otherwise prosp.) by: S.I. 2001/1210, art. 2; S.I. 2001/2041, art. 2(1)(a)(2)(3) (with transitional provisions and savings in Sch); S.I. 2001/2190, art. 2, Sch.; S.I. 2002/839, art. 2; S.I. 2002/2215, art. 2; S.I. 2002/920, art. 3(3)(b) (subject to transitional provisions in Schs. 1-3))