{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-standards-act-2000/section-22A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-standards-act-2000/section-22A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/14",
  "legislation_title": "Care Standards Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-standards-act-2000",
  "path": "section/22A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22A",
  "heading": "Power of CIECSS to serve notice where person is failing to comply with regulations",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if—\n(a) a person (“P”) is registered in respect of a relevant establishment or agency; and\n(b) the CIECSS is of the opinion that P is failing or has failed to comply with a requirement imposed on P in relation to that establishment or agency.\n(2) The CIECSS may serve a compliance notice on P.\n(3) A compliance notice is a notice which—\n(a) states that the CIECSS is of the opinion mentioned in subsection (1)(b);\n(b) specifies the requirement with which the CIECSS considers P is failing or has failed to comply;\n(c) specifies how the CIECSS considers that P is failing or has failed to comply with that requirement;\n(d) specifies the establishment or agency in relation to which the CIECSS considers P is failing or has failed to comply with that requirement;\n(e) specifies the steps the CIECSS considers need to be taken by P in relation to that establishment or agency to comply with that requirement or (as the case may be) to prevent a recurrence of the failure to comply with that requirement;\n(f) specifies a period for the taking of those steps; and\n(g) explains the effect of subsections (4) and (5).\n(4) Failing to take the steps specified in a compliance notice within the period so specified is an offence.\n(5) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (4) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(6) In this section—\n(a) a “relevant establishment or agency” means an establishment or agency in relation to which the functions of the registration authority under section 13 are exercisable by the CIECSS;\n(b) references to a “requirement” are references to a requirement imposed by regulations under—\n(i) section 22;\n(ii) section 9 of the Adoption Act 1976; or\n(iii) section 9 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 22A inserted (1.4.2010 for E. and otherwise prosp.) by Children and Young Persons Act 2008 (c. 23), ss. 26(2), 44; S.I. 2009/3354, art. 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 22A applied (with modifications) (1.7.2013) by The Residential Holiday Schemes for Disabled Children (England) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1394), reg. 1(1), Sch. 7 para. 9 (with reg. 1(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/14/section/22A",
    "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."
}