Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983

19 (1) The Secretary of State may make regulations as to the conduct of residential care homes, and in particular—

(a) as to the facilities and services to be provided in such homes ;

(b) as to the numbers and qualifications of staff to be employed in such homes ;

(c) as to the numbers of suitably qualified and competent staff to be on duty in such homes ;

(d) as to the records to be kept and notices to be given in respect of persons received into such homes ;

(e) as to the notification of events occurring in such homes ;

(f) as to the giving of notice by a person of a description specified in the regulations of periods during which any person of a description so specified proposes to be absent from a home ;

(g) as to the information to be supplied in such a notice ;

(h) making provision for children under the age of 18 years who are resident in such homes to receive a religious upbringing appropriate to the religious persuasion to which they belong;

(j) as to the form of registers to be kept by registration authorities for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule and the particulars to be contained in them ; and

(k) as to the information to be supplied on an application for registration.

(2) Regulations under this paragraph may provide that a contravention of or failure to comply with any specified provision of the regulations shall be an offence against the regulations; and any person guilty of an offence against the regulations shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of an amount not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.