Section 54: Applications for registration: later years childminders
122.This section deals with applications for registration as a later years childminder for children under 8. It requires applicants to give certain information to the Chief Inspector and pay any prescribed fee. The Chief Inspector must register the person if they are not disqualified from registration and any requirements for registration are satisfied and are likely to continue to be satisfied. A person may be disqualified from registration by regulations made under section 75. These may be used to disqualify, for example, persons on the list kept under section 1 of the Protection of Children Act 1999 (c.14). Registration requirements may include requirements relating to the premises on which the provision is to be provided.