51.—(1) The “Registration of Social Care and Independent Healthcare (Fees)(Wales) Regulations 2002”(1) are amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In the paragraph headed “Arrangement of Regulations”, add the following at the end “12. Annual fee — fostering agencies and local authority fostering services”.
(3) In regulation 2(1),(a) at the appropriate places insert—
““agency” means a fostering agency”;
“local authority fostering service” means the discharge by a local authority of relevant fostering functions within the meaning of the Act;”;
in the definitions of “new provider”, “previously exempt provider”, “registered manager”, “registered provider”, for “establishment” in each instance where it appears substitute “establishment or agency”;
in the definition of “service user” for “establishment” in each instance where it appears substitute “establishment or by an agency”.
(4) In regulations 2(2) and 4(3) for “establishment” in each instance where it appears substitute “establishment or agency”.
(5) In regulation 3 for establishment in each instance where it appears substitute “establishment or an agency”.
(6) After regulation 11 (Annual fee — residential family centres), there is to be inserted the following regulation—
12.—(1) The annual fee in respect of a fostering agency is £ 1,000.
(2) The annual fee in respect of a local authority fostering service is £ 1,000.
(3) The annual fee in respect of a fostering agency or a local authority fostering service is to be first payable by the registered provider on the date specified in respect of him or her in paragraph (4)(“the first date”), and thereafter on the anniversary of the first date.
(4) The specified date is—
(a)in the case of a fostering agency, on 1 April 2004, or on the date on which the certificate is issued, whichever is the later;
(b)in the case of a local authority fostering service—
(i)in a case of a local authority which is discharging relevant fostering functions on the date on which the Fostering Services (Wales) Regulations 2003 come into force, on 1 April 2003;
(ii)in any other case, on the date on which such functions are first discharged.”
S.I. 2002/921 (W.109).