# The Care Standards Act 2000 (Registration)(England) Regulations 2010, Regulation 13: Application for cancellation of registration

Extent: E+W
Status: prospective

(1) In this regulation—
“application for cancellation” means an application by the registered person under section 15(1)(b) of the Act for the cancellation of that person’s registration;
“notice of application for cancellation” means a notice by the registered person stating that the registered person has made, or intends to make, an application for cancellation; and
“proposed effective date” means the date requested by the registered person as the date on which the cancellation applied for is to take effect.
(2) An application for cancellation shall be—
(a) in writing on a form approved by the CI;
(b) sent or delivered to the CI not less than three months before the proposed effective date or such shorter period (if any) before that date as may be agreed with the CI; and
(c) accompanied by the information specified in paragraph (4).
(3) If the registered person makes an application for cancellation the registered person shall, not more than seven days thereafter, give notice of the application for cancellation to each of the persons specified in paragraph (4)(d), other than a person to whom the registered person has given such notice within three months before making the application for cancellation.
(4) The following information is specified—
(a) the proposed effective date;
(b) a statement as to the arrangements (if any) that have been made by the registered person to ensure that on and after—
(i) the date of application for cancellation; and
(ii) the proposed effective date,
service users will continue to be provided with similar accommodation (if any) and services as those provided to them in the establishment or by the agency at the date on which the application for cancellation is made;
(c) the registered person’s reasons for making the application for cancellation;
(d) particulars of any notice of application for cancellation that has been given to any of the following persons—
(i) service users;
(ii) persons who appear to the registered person to be representatives of service users; and
(iii) the local authority in whose area the establishment or the premises used by the agency are situated;
(e) where the registered person has not given notice of an application for cancellation to—
(i) each service user;
(ii) in respect of each service user, a person who appears to the registered person to be a representative of that service user; and
(iii) the local authority,
a statement as to whether there were any circumstances which prevented the registered person from giving, or made it impracticable for that person to give, notice of an application for cancellation to any of the persons or bodies referred to in heads (i) to (iii) of this sub-paragraph before the date on which the registered person applied for cancellation;
(f) where the registered person has applied for cancellation less than three months before the proposed effective date, a report as to whether the establishment or agency has ceased, or is likely to cease within the next following twelve months, to be financially viable.
(5) The registered person shall provide the CI with any other information or any documents that it may reasonably require in relation to the registered person’s application for cancellation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2130/regulation/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/care-standards-act-2000-registrationengland-regulations-2010/regulation-13
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