Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 Explanatory Notes

The Act

Commentary on sections

Part 1: the Commission and Care Services
Miscellaneous
Section 31: Arrangements entered into by local authority or health body: services to be registered

119.This section makes it clear that, although a service commissioned by the body in question need not exist as a registered care service at the time the contract is entered into, the service must be a registered one by the time it is actually provided.

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