{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-standards-act-2000/section-14A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-standards-act-2000/section-14A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/14",
  "legislation_title": "Care Standards Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-standards-act-2000",
  "path": "section/14A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14A",
  "heading": "Suspension of registration",
  "text": "(1) The registration authority may at any time suspend for a specified period the registration of a person in respect of an establishment or agency ....\n(2) Except where the registration authority gives notice under section 20B, the power conferred by subsection (1) is exercisable only on the ground that the establishment or agency is being, or has at any time been, carried on otherwise than in accordance with the relevant requirements.\n(3) The suspension of a person's registration does not affect the continuation of the registration (but see sections 24A and 26 as to offences).\n(4) A period of suspension may be extended under subsection (1) on one or more occasions.\n(5) Reference in this Part to the suspension of a person's registration is to suspension under this section, and related expressions are to be read accordingly.\n(6) In this section “relevant requirements” has the same meaning as in section 14.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 14A inserted (1.4.2009 for certain purposes and 1.10.2010 otherwise) by Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14), ss. 95, 170(1)(b), Sch. 5 para. 13; S.I. 2009/462, art. 2, Sch. 1 para. 35; S.I. 2010/807, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 (with arts. 3-22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 14A(1) substituted (13.5.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), ss. 102(1)(a), 139(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 14A(1) omitted (13.5.2014) by virtue of Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), ss. 102(1)(b), 139(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 14A(2) substituted (13.5.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), ss. 102(2), 139(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 applied (with modifications) (1.4.2017) by The Private Dentistry (Wales) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/202), regs. 1, 39, Sch. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/14/section/14A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:05.049603+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."
}