Part 1The Care Quality Commission
Chapter 2Registration in respect of provision of health or social care
Offences
36False description of concerns, premises etc.
1
Any person who, with intent to deceive any person—
a
applies any name to any concern carried on in England or to any premises in England, or
b
in any way describes such a concern or such premises or holds such a concern or such premises out,
so as to indicate, or reasonably be understood to indicate, that the carrying on of the concern is a regulated activity or that the premises are used for the carrying on of a regulated activity is guilty of an offence unless the conditions in subsection (2) are met.
2
Those conditions are—
a
that a person is registered under this Chapter as a service provider in respect of the regulated activity in question, and
b
that the registration has not been suspended.
3
Any person who, with intent to deceive any person, in any way describes or holds out any person registered under this Chapter as a service provider in respect of a regulated activity as able to provide a service or do any thing the provision or doing of which would contravene a condition for the time being in force by virtue of this Chapter in relation to the regulated activity is guilty of an offence.
4
A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) or (3) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
5
In this section “concern” includes any organisation.