{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-homes-regulations-2001/regulation-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-homes-regulations-2001/regulation-40.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3965",
  "legislation_title": "The Care Homes Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-homes-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/40",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Notice of termination of accommodation",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the registered person shall not terminate the arrangements for the accommodation of a service user unless he has given reasonable notice of his intention to do so to—\n(a) the service user;\n(b) the person who appears to be the service user’s next of kin; and\n(c) where a local authority has made arrangements for the provision of accommodation, nursing or personal care to the service user at the care home, that authority.\n(2) If it is impracticable for the registered person to comply with the requirement in paragraph (1)—\n(a) he shall do so as soon as it is practicable to do so; and\n(b) he shall provide to the Commission a statement as to the circumstances which made it impracticable for him to comply with the requirement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3965/regulation/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:19:07.009064+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}