The Day Care Setting Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Notice of termination of the provision of care in the day care setting

32.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the registered person shall not terminate the arrangements for the provision of care in the day care setting of a service user unless he has given reasonable notice of his intention to do so to—

(a)the service user;

(b)the person who appears to be the service user’s next of kin; and

(c)where an HSS trust has made arrangements for the provision of care to the service user in the day care setting, that trust.

(2) If it is impracticable for the registered person to comply with the requirement in paragraph (1)—

(a)he shall do so as soon as it is practicable to do so; and

(b)he shall provide to the Regulation and Improvement Authority a statement as to the circumstances which made it impracticable for him to comply with the requirement.