The Nursing Homes and Mental Nursing Homes (Amendment) Regulations 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1191

PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Nursing Homes and Mental Nursing Homes (Amendment) Regulations 1988

Made

11th July 1988

Laid before Parliament

11th July 1988

Coming into force

1st August 1988

The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 23(3)(b), 27 and 56(4) of the Registered Homes Act 1984(1), and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Nursing Homes and Mental Nursing Homes (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st August 1988.

(2) In these Regulations any reference to a numbered Schedule is a reference to the Schedule bearing that number in the Nursing Homes and Mental Nursing Homes Regulations 1984(2).

Amendment of Schedule 1

2.  Schedule 1 (fees to accompany applications) shall be amended as follows—

(a) in paragraph 1 for “£550.” there shall be substituted “£600”.; and

(b) in paragraph 2 for “£350.” there shall be substituted “£380.”.

Amendment of Schedule 3

3.  Schedule 3 (annual fees) shall be amended as follows—

(a) in paragraph 1 for “£20” there shall be substituted “£22”; and

(b) in paragraph 4 for “£175.” there shall be substituted “£190.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.

Tony Newton

Minister of State,

Department of Health and Social Security

11th July 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations increase the fees payable under the Nursing Homes and Mental Nursing Homes Regulations 1984.

The fee to accompany an application for registration is increased from £550 to £600, and the fee to accompany such an application on a proposed change of ownership, where there are no other changes in relation to the home, is increased from £350 to £380 (regulation 2); the annual fee payable in respect of a home in which beds are provided for the use of patients at night is increased from £20 to £22, multiplied by the maximum number of patients in the homes; the annual fee payable in respect of a home in which no beds are provided for the use of patients at night is increased from £175 to £190 (regulation 3).

(1)

1984 c. 23.

(2)

S.I. 1984/1578, as amended by S.I. 1986/456.