The Nurses Agencies (Wales) Regulations 2003

Transition from licensing under the 1957 Act to registration under the 2000 Act

1.—(1) This sub-paragraph applies to a nurses agency provider (referred to as “the provider” (“y darparydd”) in the following provisions of this Schedule) when in accordance with sub-paragraph (6) he or she is treated as having applied for and been granted registration under Part II of the 2000 Act in respect of the agency that he or she was licensed to carry on under the 1957 Act.

(2) The 1957 Act shall continue in force for the purpose of giving effect to the following provisions of this paragraph.

(3) Until such time as sub-paragraph (1) applies in relation to a nurses agency provider the provisions of the 1957 Act shall continue in force in relation to, and in respect of, the provider as if any reference in the 1957 Act to the licensing authority is a reference to the National Assembly.

(4) The National Assembly, having regard to any representations made by the provider under sub-paragraph (9), shall determine at such time as it thinks fit, the matters described in sub-paragraph (5), and serve notice of its determination upon the provider.

(5) The matters are —

(a) the conditions (if any) to which the registration of the provider under the 1957 Act was subject;

(b) any other matter in so far as the determination of that matter is necessary to enable the provider, in accordance with sub-paragraph (6), to be treated for the purposes of Part II of the 2000 Act as having applied for and been granted registration in respect of the agency;

and any determination of the National Assembly under sub-paragraph (4) shall for the purposes of section 21 of the 2000 Act (appeals to the Tribunal) be treated as if it were a decision of the Assembly under Part II of that Act.

(6) When the National Assembly has made a determination in accordance with sub-paragraph (4), then with effect from a date specified by the National Assembly ('the effective date') —

(a) the provider shall, for the purposes of Part II of the 2000 Act, be treated as having applied for and been granted registration in respect of the existing undertaking;

(b) the conditions (if any) determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (5)(a) shall, in so far as they are capable of being conditions to which the registration for the purposes of Part II of the 2000 Act is subject, have effect —

(i) as if they were conditions to which the registration for those purposes is subject; and

(ii) as if, for the purposes of section 19(1) of the 2000 Act, they had been agreed in writing between the provider and the National Assembly.

(7) On, or before, the effective date in respect of a determination under this paragraph the National Assembly shall issue a certificate to the provider —

(a) the contents of which shall be in accordance with any regulations made under section 16(1)(b) of the 2000 Act about the contents of certificates issued under Part II of that Act; and

(b) which shall be treated as if it were a certificate in respect of the existing undertaking issued by the National Assembly under Part II of the 2000 Act.

(8) The provisions of sub-paragraphs (5) and (6) shall be without prejudice to the powers of the National Assembly to vary, remove or impose any condition in accordance with Part II of the 2000 Act.

(9) Before making a determination as to the matters described in sub-paragraph (5) in relation to an existing undertaking the National Assembly shall give notice in writing to the provider informing the provider that he or she may, within twenty eight days of the receipt of that notice, make written representations about the determination, and that no determination will be made before the expiry of those twenty eight days.