The Care Standards Act 2000 (Commencement No. 8 (Wales) and Transitional, Savings and Consequential Provisions) Order 2002

Interpretation

1.—(1) In this Schedule, unless the contrary intention appears—

“1984 Act home” means a residential care home, nursing home or mental nursing home in respect of which immediately before 1st April 2002 a person was registered under Part I or Part II of the 1984 Act;

“1989 Act home” means a registered children’s home or a voluntary children’s home;

“applicable description” means, in respect of an existing registered home, the category of establishment within which that home falls;

“authority” means—

(a)

in relation to a Part I 1984 Act registered person, or a person who has applied to be registered under that Part of that Act, the local authority which is the registration authority for the purposes of that Part of that Act in relation to that home or (as the case may be) that application;

(b)

in relation to a Part II 1984 Act registered person, or a person who has applied to be registered under that Part of that Act, the National Assembly;

(c)

in relation to a registered children’s home, or a person who has made an application in respect of a home under that Part of that Act, the local authority which is the registration authority for the purposes of that Part of that Act in relation to that home or (as the case may be) that application;

(d)

in relation to a voluntary children’s home, or a person who has made an application in respect of a home under Part VII of that Act, the National Assembly;

“establishment” means a children’s home, care home, independent hospital or independent clinic within the meaning of the 2000 Act;

“existing registered home” means a 1984 Act home or a 1989 Act home;

“existing registered provider” in relation to an existing registered home means—

(a)

in relation to a 1989 Act home, the person carrying on the home immediately before 1st April 2002;

(b)

in relation to 1984 Act home, a Part I or Part II (as the case may be) registered person in respect of the home;

“mental nursing home” has the meaning given to it in section 22 of the 1984 Act;

“nursing home” has the meaning given to it in section 21 of the 1984 Act;

“Part I 1984 Act registered person” means a person who immediately before 1st April 2002 was registered in respect of a residential care home under Part I of the 1984 Act;

“Part II 1984 Act registered person” means a person who immediately before 1st April 2002 was registered in respect of a nursing home or mental nursing home under Part II of the 1984 Act;

“registered children’s home” means a home that immediately before 1st April 2002 was registered under Part VIII of the 1989 Act;

“residential care home” shall be construed in accordance with section 1(1) of the 1984 Act;

“voluntary children’s home” means a home that immediately before 1st April 2002 was registered in a register kept for the purposes of section 60 of the 1989 Act

(2) In this Schedule, unless the contrary intention appears, a reference—

(a) to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph in this Schedule bearing that number;

(b) in a paragraph to a numbered sub-paragraph is to the sub-paragraph in that paragraph bearing that number.