{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-minding-and-day-care-registration-and-annual-fees-regulations-2001/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-minding-and-day-care-registration-and-annual-fees-regulations-2001/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1886",
  "legislation_title": "Child Minding and Day Care (Registration and Annual Fees) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-minding-and-day-care-registration-and-annual-fees-regulations-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations prescribe the fees under section 79F of the Children Act 1989 in relation to registration for child minding or providing day care.\n“Child minding” is defined in section 79A(2) of that Act, subject to the following subsections of that section, as looking after one or more children under the age of eight on domestic premises for reward.\n“Day care” is defined in section 79A(6) of that Act as care provided at any time for children under the age of eight on premises other than domestic premises.\nThe Regulations also prescribe the annual fees to be paid by child minders and those providing day care under paragraph 7 of Schedule 9A to the Children Act 1989 and the time at which they should be paid. They also prescribe the fee payable for a replacement certificate where the original has been lost or destroyed.\nThe old fees payable under the Child Minding and Day Care (Registration and Inspection Fees) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2076 as amended by S.I. 1996/3180) are set out in column 1 of the following table and the new fees under these Regulations are set out in column 2.\nTABLE\n(1)\n(2)\nOld Fee\nNew Fee\n£\n£\nRegistration as a childminder\n12.50\n14.00\nRegistration as a provider of day care for a continuous period of four hours or more in a day\n110.00\n121.00\nRegistration as a provider of day care for less than a continuous period of four hours in a day\n12.50\n14.00\nInspection fee/Annual fee for a childminder\n10.00\n11.00\nInspection fee/Annual fee for a provider of day care for a continuous period of four hours or more in a day\n85.00\n94.00\nInspection fee/Annual fee for a provider of day care for less than a continuous period of four hours in a day\n10.00\n11.00\nFee for a replacement certificate\n5.00\n5.00",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1886/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:48:30.276794+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."
}