{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-standards-act-2000-commencement-no-7-england-and-transitional-transitory-and-savings-provisions-order-2001/schedule/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-standards-act-2000-commencement-no-7-england-and-transitional-transitory-and-savings-provisions-order-2001/schedule/paragraph-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2041",
  "legislation_title": "The Care Standards Act 2000 (Commencement No. 7 (England) and Transitional, Transitory and Savings Provisions) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-standards-act-2000-commencement-no-7-england-and-transitional-transitory-and-savings-provisions-order-2001",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Duties and powers of local authorities in relation to transfer",
  "text": "(1) The duties of sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) are subject to sub-paragraph (4).\n(2) All information and documents relating to the registration of any person—\n(a) whose registration was, by virtue of paragraph 3(1), to be treated as continuing during the second transitional period; or\n(b) whose application for registration was granted by a local authority pursuant to a decision under paragraph 7 during the second transitional period\nand in the possession of a local authority immediately before the operative date shall be passed by the local authority to the registration authority not later than 21st September 2001.\n(3) Any information or document relating to the registration of a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) which comes into the possession of the local authority on or after the operative date (other than information or documents sent to them by the registration authority) shall be passed to the registration authority within 7 working days of its receipt.\n(4) A local authority may retain any such documents as are necessary to the conduct of any business to which sub-paragraph (6) applies, for such period as is reasonably necessary to conclude that business. In that event, the authority must, within the relevant time limit supply to the registration authority, at its own expense, a good copy of each document retained.\n(5) A local authority may, on reasonable notice in writing to the registration authority, inspect and take copies of any such documents as have passed to the registration authority under this paragraph and are necessary to the conduct of any business to which sub-paragraph (6) applies.\n(6) This paragraph applies to—\n(a) the completion of any process begun under section 77 or paragraph 10 before the operative date; and\n(b) the continuance of any legal proceedings instituted under or in relation to Part X of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2041/schedule/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:47:40.219917+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."
}