The Regulation of Care (Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2006

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 273

SOCIAL CARE

The Regulation of Care (Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2006

Made

19th May 2006

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

22nd May 2006

Coming into force

20th June 2006

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 24(1) of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such persons or groups of persons as they consider appropriate in accordance with that section, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Regulation of Care (Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2006 and shall come into force on 20th June 2006.

Amendment to the principal Order

2.—(1) The Regulation of Care (Fees) (Scotland) Order 2005(2) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (2) of article 1 (interpretation) insert at the appropriate places in alphabetical order the following definitions–

““medium adult placement service” means an adult placement service which employs more than three, but not more than fifteen, whole-time equivalent persons to provide and manage the service;

“other adult placement service” means an adult placement service which is neither a small adult placement service nor a medium adult placement service;

“small adult placement service” means an adult placement service which does not employ more than three whole-time equivalent persons to provide and manage the service;”.

(3) In the Schedule at the end of the table insert–

“Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Service	Application for Registration	Annual Continuation	Variation or Removal of Condition	Cancellation of Registration
	(£)	(£)	(£)	(£)
Small adult placement service	2112	1250	328	328
Medium adult placement service	3516	3126	328	328
Other adult placement service	4449	4372	328	328”.

LEWIS MACDONALD

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

19th May 2006

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Regulation of Care (Fees) (Scotland) Order 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/97) (“the principal Order”) by prescribing the maximum fees which may be imposed by the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care (“the Commission”) in respect of applications for registration or for cancellation of registration of an adult placement service, the annual continuation of any such registration, and applications for variation or removal of a condition of such registration under the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 (“the Act”) (article 2(2)). The maximum fees in respect of these matters are set out in the table at article 2(3).

The maximum fee which may be imposed by the Commission in respect of issuing a new certificate of registration under section 24(2)(d) of the Act in respect of an adult placement service will be £77. That amount is already set out in article 3 of the principal Order, and will apply to adult placement services by virtue of the amendments made to the principal Order by this Order.

(1)

2001 asp 8. See section 77(1) for the definition of “prescribed”.

(2)

S.S.I. 2005/97.