Article 1 Citation, interpretation and application

This Order may be cited as the Care Standards Act 2000 (Commencement No. 8 (Wales) and Transitional, Savings and Consequential Provisions) Order 2002.

In this Order—

• “the 2000 Act” means the Care Standards Act 2000;

• “the 1984 Act” means the Registered Homes Act 1984^f1;

• “the 1989 Act” means the Children Act 1989^f2;

• “community home” means a home that was a community home within the meaning of section 53 of the 1989 Act immediately before 1st April 2002;

• “existing registered home” means—

  1. (a)

     a residential care home, nursing home or mental nursing home in respect of which immediately before 1st April 2002 a person was registered under Part I or Part II of the 1984 Act;

  2. (b)

     a home that immediately before 1st April 2002 was registered under Part VIII of the 1989 Act or in a register kept for the purposes of section 60 of the 1989 Act;

• “mental nursing home” has the meaning given to it in section 22 of the 1984 Act;

• “No. 2 Commencement Order” means the Care Standards Act 2000 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) (Wales) Order 2001^f3;

• “National Assembly” means the National Assembly for Wales;

• “nursing home” has the meaning given to it in section 21 of the 1984 Act

• “residential care home” shall be construed in accordance with section 1(1) of the 1984 Act

In this Order a reference in an article to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph in that article bearing that number.

This Order applies in relation to Wales.