http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/121/part/IIThe Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Health and Social Care) Savings and Transitional Provisions Order 2011Day careHealth carePrivate health careCarePublic servicesenSOCIAL CAREPUBLIC HEALTHStatute Law Database2026-08-20Expert Participation2011-04-01 This Order makes transitional and savings provisions in respect of Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (SCSWIS) and Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) required as a result of the repeal of Part1 of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 and the Joint Inspection of Children’s Services and Inspection of Social Work Services (Scotland) Act 2006 by the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (“the 2010 Act”). These 2 bodies were established by the 2010 Act and come into operation on 1st April 2011 which is the appointed day for the purposes of this Order. PART II 2 1 Where on the appointed day, a person provides a care service which immediately before that day was registered under Part1 or 2 of the 2001 Act, that care service is to be treated for all purposes as if it had been registered under Part5 of the 2010 Act on that day and is subject to the same conditions as the registration under Part 1 or 2 of the 2001 Act was subject. 2 Paragraph1 does not apply to a registration to which article18(1) applies. 3 1 Where prior to the appointed day an improvement notice has been given under section10 of the 2001 Act, that notice is to be treated for all purposes as if it had been given by SCSWIS under section62 of the 2010 Act. 2 Any reference in that notice to section 2, 12, 14, 41 or Part 2 of the 2001 Act is to be treated as a reference to section 64, 70, 91, Chapter 4 or schedule 12 of the 2010 Act as appropriate. 4 Where prior to the appointed day, the Commission has proposed under section 12 of the 2001 Act, to cancel the registration of a care service, that proposal is to be treated for all purposes as if it had been made by SCSWIS under section 64(1) of the 2010 Act, and as if any reference to a relevant offence or to a relevant requirement in that section were to a relevant offence or relevant requirement as defined in section12 of the 2001 Act. 5 Where prior to the appointed day, a person providing a care service is given a condition notice under section13 of the 2001 Act, that notice is to be treated for all purposes as if it had been given by SCSWIS under section66 of the 2010 Act. 6 Where prior to the appointed day a person providing a care service registered under Part1 of the 2001 Act has applied to the Commission for the variation or removal of a condition in force in relation to the registration, or for cancellation of the registration, in accordance with section14 of the 2001 Act, and that application has not been granted or refused prior to the appointed day, that application is to be treated for all purposes as if it were an application made to SCSWIS in accordance with section70 of the 2010 Act by a person providing a care service registered under Part5 of that Act. 7 Where prior to the appointed day a person is registered in the register maintained by the Scottish Social Services Council under section44(1)(b) of the 2001 Act, as an employee of the Commission who is also an authorised person within the meaning of sections25 and 27 of the Act, that person is to be treated for all purposes as an authorised person in terms of section56 of the 2010 Act. 8 From the appointed day, the national care standards published by the Scottish Ministers under section5 of the 2001 Act are to be treated for all purposes as if they were standards applicable to care services published under section 50 of the 2010 Act or standards applicable to independent health care services under section10H of the NHS Act. 9 Where immediately before the appointed day, the Commission has received a complaint relating to— a the Commission; b a care service; or c an independent health care service, and investigation of that complaint has not concluded, the investigation of that complaint is to be carried out by SCSWIS. The Regulation of Care (Social Service Workers) (Scotland) Order (S.S.I. 2005/318) prescribes as amended by S.S.I.2010/442 employees of the Commission for the purposes of section44(1)(b) of the 2001 Act. Art. 4 in force at 1.4.2011, see art. 1(1)Art. 2(1) excluded (1.4.2011) by The Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Health and Social Care) Savings and Transitional Provisions (No. 2) Order 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/169), arts. 1(1), 2(2)Art. 2 in force at 1.4.2011, see art. 1(1)Art. 3 in force at 1.4.2011, see art. 1(1)Art. 5 in force at 1.4.2011, see art. 1(1)Art. 6 in force at 1.4.2011, see art. 1(1)Art. 7 in force at 1.4.2011, see art. 1(1)Art. 8 in force at 1.4.2011, see art. 1(1)Art. 9 in force at 1.4.2011, see art. 1(1)