The Regulation and Improvement Authority (Registration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Regulation 3(3)

SCHEDULE 3 INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTS TO BE SUPPLIED ON AN APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION AS THE MANAGER OF AN ESTABLISHMENT OR AGENCY

PART I

Information

1.  The applicant’s full name, date of birth, address and telephone number.

2.  Details of the applicant’s professional or technical qualifications, and experience of managing an establishment or agency, so far as such qualifications and experience are relevant to providing services for persons for whom services are to be provided at the establishment or by the agency.

3.  Details of the applicant’s professional training relevant to carrying on or managing an establishment or agency.

4.  Details of the applicant’s employment history, including the name and address of his present employer and of any previous employers.

5.  Details of any business the applicant carries on or manages or has carried on or managed.

6.  The name and addresses of two referees –

(a) who are not relatives of the applicant;

(b) each of whom is able to provide a reference as to the applicant’s competence to carry on an establishment or agency of the same description as the establishment or agency; and

(c) one of whom has employed the applicant for a period of at least 3 months,

but the requirement for the name and address of a referee who has employed the applicant for a period of at least 3 months in the last five years, shall not apply where it is impracticable to obtain a reference from a person who fulfils that requirement.

7.  The name, address, telephone number, facsimile number, and electronic mail address (if any) of the establishment or agency.

PART II

Documents

8.  The applicant’s birth certificate.

9.  Certificates or other suitable evidence relating to the applicant’s professional or technical qualifications, so far as such qualifications are relevant to providing services for persons for whom services are to be provided at the establishment or by the agency.

10.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a report by a general medical practitioner as to whether the applicant is physically and mentally fit to carry on an establishment or agency of the same description as the establishment or agency.

(2) Where the applicant is unable to obtain the report referred to in sub-paragraph (1), a statement by the applicant as to the state of his physical and mental health.

11.  A criminal record certificate –

(a) which has been issued to the applicant under section 113 of the Police Act 1997; and

(b) the application for which was countersigned by the Regulation and Improvement Authority,

including, where applicable, the matters specified in section 113(3EA)(a) and (b) of that Act and the following provisions, once they are in operation, namely section 113(3EC)(a) and (b) of that Act.

12.  An enhanced criminal record certificate –

(a) which has been issued to the applicant under section 115 of that Act; and

(b) the application for which was countersigned by the Regulation and Improvement Authority,

including, where applicable, the matters specified in section 115(6EA)(a) and (b) of that Act and the following provisions, once they are in operation, namely section 115(6EB)(a) and (b) of that Act.