The Residential Care Homes (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

4.  In Schedule 1 to these Regulations (information to be supplied on an application for registration) after paragraph 2 there shall be inserted–

“2A.   An applicant for registration who is the intended manager of the home (whether or not he is in control of it) shall–

(a) supply in writing to the registration authority details with respect to his criminal convictions (if any);

(b) where the registration authority ask him for details of any criminal convictions which are spent convictions within the meaning of section 1 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974(1) and inform him at the time the question is asked that, by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975(2) spent convictions are to be disclosed, supply in writing to the registration authority details of those convictions.”

(1)

1974 c. 53.

(2)

S.I. 1975/1023; the relevant amending instrument is S.I.1986/1249.