{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-tribunal-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-tribunal-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-24.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/178",
  "legislation_title": "The Care Tribunal Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-tribunal-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "The decision",
  "text": "(1) The Care Tribunal’s decision may be taken by a majority and the decision shall record whether it was unanimous or taken by a majority.\n(2) The decision may be made and announced at the end of the hearing or reserved, and in any event, whether there has been a hearing or not, the decision must be recorded without delay in a document signed and dated by the Chairman (or if as a result of his death or incapacity he is unable to sign, or if he ceases to be a member of the chairman’s panel, by another member of the Care Tribunal).\n(3) The document mentioned in paragraph (2) must also state –\n(a) the reasons for the decision; and\n(b) what, if any, order the Care Tribunal has made as a result of its decision.\n(4) The Secretary must, as soon as reasonably possible, send to each party a copy of the document mentioned in paragraph (2) and a notice explaining to the parties any right of appeal which they may have against the Care Tribunal’s decision and the right to apply for a review of the Care Tribunal’s decision.\n(5) Where the appeal was against an order made by a Justice of the Peace under Article 21 of the Order, the Secretary must, as soon as reasonably practicable, send a copy of the document mentioned in paragraph (2) to the Justice of the Peace who made the order.\n(6) Except where a decision is announced at the end of the hearing, the decision shall be treated as having been made on the day on which a copy of the document mentioned in paragraph (2) is sent to the applicant.\n(7) The decision shall be entered in the records.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 24 in operation at 1.4.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/178/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:52:50.804189+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."
}