Cancellation of registration.
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1
The person carrying on a registered home may at any time make an application, in such manner and including such particulars as may be prescribed, for the cancellation by the responsible authority of the registration of the home; and, if the authority are satisfied either—
a
that no child in the care of a local authority is for the time being accommodated in the home, or
b
in the case of a school registered by virtue of section 1(3) above, that it is no longer a school to which that provision applies,
the authority shall give to the person carrying on the home notice that the registration of the home has been cancelled by the authority as from the date of the notice.
2
If on any annual review under section 5 above, or at any other time, it appears to the responsible authority that a registered home is being carried on otherwise than in accordance with the relevant requirements, they may determine that the registration of the home should be cancelled.
3
The responsible authority may at any time determine that the registration of a home should be cancelled on the ground that the person carrying on the home has been convicted of an offence under this Act or any regulations made under section 8 below, or on the ground that any other person has been convicted of such an offence in relation to the home.
4
Where a local authority have determined under subsection (2) or (3) above that the registration of a home should be cancelled, they shall give to the person carrying on the home either—
a
a notice that they propose to cancel the registration on such date as may be specified in the notice, being a date at least twenty-eight days after the date of the notice, or
b
a notice that they propose to cancel it on such a date as aforesaid unless the person carrying on the home has previously complied, to their satisfaction, with any relevant requirement specified in the notice,
and any such notice shall state the grounds on which the authority propose to cancel the registration of the home; and the authority shall accordingly cancel its registration on the date specified in the notice unless, in the case of a notice under paragraph (b), there has been such previous compliance as is mentioned in that paragraph.
5
Where the registration of a home is cancelled under subsection (2) or (3) above, no application for the registration of the home shall be made under section 3 above within the period of six months beginning with the date of cancellation.
6
In this section “the relevant requirements” has the same meaning as in section 5 above.
Act repealed (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c.41, SIF 20) Sch. 15 (with Sch. 14 paras. 1(1), 27(4)); S.I 1991/828, art. 3(2)