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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2001 No. 4150 (C. 134)

SOCIAL CARE, ENGLAND

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS, ENGLAND

PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND

The Care Standards Act 2000 (Commencement No. 10 (England) and Transitional, Savings and Amendment Provisions) Order 2001

  Made 21st December 2001 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 118(5) to (7) and 122 of the Care Standards Act 2000[1], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order: - 

Citation and extent
     1.  - (1) This Order may be cited as the Care Standards Act 2000 (Commencement No. 10 (England) and Transitional, Savings and Amendment Provisions) Order 2001.

    (2) This Order extends to England only.

Interpretation
     2.  - (1) In this Order - 

    (2) In this Order, a reference - 

Appointed days
     3.  - (1) In this article, any reference to a section is a reference to a section of the Act, and any reference to a Schedule is a reference to a Schedule to the Act.

    (2) This article shall have effect subject to article 4.

    (3) 1st April 2002 is the day appointed for the coming into force of - 

    (4) 1st July 2002 is the day appointed for the coming into force of section 117 and Schedule 6, in so far as they relate to the Local Government Act 1972[18] and the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979[19].

Transitional provisions
     4.  - (1) This paragraph applies to any undertaking which for the time being - 

    (2) This Paragraph applies to any undertaking which for the time being is an agency for the supply of nurses within the meaning of the 1957 Act - 

    (3) This paragraph applies to any community home - 

    (4) An enactment which is amended by virtue of any provision in Schedule 4 to the Act brought into force under article 3(3)(a) shall, in so far as the enactment relates to - 

have effect in relation to that undertaking or community home, as the case may be, as if the amendment had not been made.

    (5) Any enactment which is repealed to any extent by virtue of any entry in Schedule 6 to the Act brought into force under article 3(3)(c) or (4) shall, in so far as it relates to - 

have effect in relation to that undertaking or community home, as the case may be, as if the enactment had not been repealed.

Amendment of the No. 9 Order
     5.  - (1) The No. 9 Order shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this article.

    (2) In article 3 of the No. 9 Order, in paragraph (7)(i), after the words "Protection of Children Act" on the first and third occasions on which they occur, there shall be added "1999".

    (3) In Schedule 1 to the No. 9 Order - 

    (4) At the end of the Schedule 1 to the No. 9 Order, the following paragraph shall be added - 

    (5) In Schedule 2 to the No. 9 Order, in paragraph 2(b), after the word "categories" the word "of" shall be omitted.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health


Jacqui Smith
Minister of State, Department of Health

21st December 2001


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order brings into force, in relation to England only, certain provisions of the Care Standards Act 2000 which amend or repeal other statutory provisions. It also makes transitional provision and amends the Care Standards Act 2000 (Commencement No. 9 (England) and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2001 ("the No. 9 Order").

Under the Care Standards Act 2000, the National Care Standards Commission is to be responsible for the regulation and registration of children's homes, care homes, nurses agencies and certain other establishments and agencies. Voluntary and private children's homes are currently registered under sections 60 and 63 of the Children Act 1989. Residential care homes, nursing homes and mental nursing homes are currently registered under the Registered Homes Act 1984, and nurses agencies are licensed under the Nurses Agencies Act 1957. The amendments and repeals are in general consequential on the replacement of the current systems of registration.

Article 3 of the Order brings into force certain minor and consequential amendments and repeals on 1st April 2002, and the repeals specified in article 3(4) on 1st July 2002. The transitional provisions in article 4 provide for the amendments or repeals not to have effect in a case where the registration under the current legislation continues in force, or in the case of a community home in relation to which a person has applied for registration under the Act and the application has not been determined.

Article 5 of the Order amends the No. 9 Order. Article 5(3)(b) applies to persons who are registered in respect of a home under the Registered Homes Act 1984. In order to become registered under the Care Standards Act 2000, it is necessary for them to apply for criminal record certificates under the Police Act 1997. Under the amendment, if they have become registered within the year ending on 31st March 2002 and the registration authority has received a police check in respect of them, it will not be necessary for them to apply for the certificates.

Under the No. 9 Order, persons who are registered in respect of a home under the Registered Homes Act 1984 will be subject to a condition in relation to the use of private rooms for the accommodation of service users which the registration authority previously notified were of insufficient size. The condition is amended by article 5(3)(e) so that the notification must have been given in writing before 13th November 2001.

The amendment made by article 5(4) provides for Part III of the Registered Homes Act 1984, which makes provision for appeals to the Registered Homes Tribunal, to continue to have effect in relation to appeals to the Tribunal which are commenced before 1st April 2002 or are subsequently brought in accordance with Schedule 1 to the No. 9 Order.

Article 5 also makes minor corrections to the No. 9 Order.


NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT ORDERS

(This note is not part of the Order)


The following provisions of the Care Standards Act 2000 have been brought into force - 

Certain provisions of the Act have been brought into force in relation to Wales only, by the following statutory instruments - 

Notes:

 [1] 2000 c. 14. The powers are exercisable by the appropriate Minister, who is defined in section 121(1), in relation to England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, as the Secretary of State.back

[2] 1957 c. 16.back

[3] 1984 c. 23.back

[4] 1989 c. 41.back

[5] S.I. 2001/3852.back

[6] 1948 c. 29.back

[7] 1963 c. 33.back

[8] 1970 c. 42.back

[9] 1981 c. xvii.back

[10] 1983 c. 20.back

[11] 1984 c. 22.back

[12] 1984 c. xxvii.back

[13] 1990 c. 19.back

[14] 1991 c. 20.back

[15] 1996 c. 23.back

[16] 1996 c. 56.back

[17] 1997 c. 24.back

[18] 1972 c. 70.back

[19] 1979 c. 36.back

[20] 1996 c. 16.back


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 © Crown copyright 2001

Prepared 5 February 2002

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