PART 1U.K.REGULATION OF SOCIAL CARE SERVICES

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

CHAPTER 2U.K.REGISTRATION ETC. OF SERVICE PROVIDERS

Application for, variation of and cancellation of registrationU.K.

[F19BFinancial arrangements relating to restricted children’s services: supplementary provisionE+W

(1)In section 9A(3)(b)—

(a)“employee” and “worker” have the meanings given by section 230 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (c. 18);

(b)an “officer” means—

(i)any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the service provider (and, in relation to a service provider whose affairs are managed by its members, “director” means a member of the service provider);

(ii)any other person having the general control and management of the service provider,

and, where the service provider is a charity, this includes any charity trustee within the meaning of the Charities Acts.

(2)For the purposes of section 9A(3)(b), the following are connected to an employee, worker or officer of the service provider—

(a)their child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, brother or sister;

(b)their spouse or civil partner;

(c)a person carrying on business in partnership with them or with any person falling within paragraph (a) or (b);

(d)an institution which is controlled—

(i)by them or by any person falling within paragraph (a), (b) or (c), or

(ii)by two or more persons falling within sub-paragraph (i), when taken together;

(e)a body corporate in which—

(i)the person or any connected person falling within any of paragraphs (a) to (c) has a substantial interest, or

(ii)two or more persons falling within sub-paragraph (i), when taken together, have a substantial interest.

(3)In subsection (2)—

(a)“child” includes a stepchild;

(b)where two people are not married to, or civil partners of, each other but live together as if they were a married couple or civil partners, each of them is to be treated as the spouse or civil partner of the other;

(c)“institution” has the meaning given by section 9(3) of the Charities Act 2011 and a person controls an institution if the person is able, directly or indirectly, to secure that the affairs of the institution are conducted in accordance with the person’s wishes;

(d)references to having a “substantial interest in a body corporate” have the meaning given by section 352 of the Charities Act 2011.

(4)For the purposes of section 9A(3)(b)(iii), a group of persons is to be treated as being under common control if the group—

(a)is a group of interconnected bodies corporate,

(b)consists of bodies corporate of which one and the same person or group of persons has control, or

(c)consists of one or more bodies corporate and a person who, or a group of persons which, has control of that or those bodies corporate.

(5)In subsection (4), a “group of interconnected bodies corporate” means a group consisting of two or more bodies corporate all of which are interconnected with each other.

(6)For the purposes of subsection (5), any two bodies corporate are interconnected if—

(a)one of them is a body corporate of which the other is a subsidiary, or

(b)both of them are subsidiaries of one and the same body corporate (and “interconnected bodies corporate” is to be construed accordingly).

(7)For the purposes of subsection (4)(b) and (c), a person or group of persons controls a body corporate if the person or group of persons is able, directly or indirectly, to secure that the affairs of the body corporate are conducted in accordance with the wishes of the person or group of persons.

(8)In this section—

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