The Suspension of Day Care Providers and Child Minders (Wales) Regulations 2004

Power to suspend registration

3.—(1) The National Assembly may, in accordance with regulations 4, 5, 6 and 7, suspend the registration of any person acting as a child minder or providing day care if there is reasonable cause for the National Assembly to believe that the continued provision of child minding or day care by that person exposes or may expose one or more of the children to whom it is or may be provided to the risk of harm and the purpose of the suspension is for one or both of the purposes set out in paragraph (2).

(2) The purposes of the suspension are—

(a)to allow time for the circumstances giving rise to the National Assembly’s belief to be investigated; and

(b)to allow time for steps to be taken to reduce or eliminate the risk of harm.