# Childcare Act 2006, Section 54: Applications for registration: later years childminders with domestic premises

Extent: E+W

(1) A person who proposes to provide later years childminding in respect of which he is required by section 52(1) to be registered may make an application — .
(a) to the Chief Inspector for registration in Part A of the general childcare register as a later years childminder with domestic premises, or
(b) to a later years childminder agency for registration with that agency as a later years childminder with domestic premises.
(2) An application under subsection (1) must—
(a) give any prescribed information about prescribed matters,
(b) give any other information which the Chief Inspector or (as the case may be) the later years childminder agency reasonably requires the applicant to give, and
(c) if it is an application to the Chief Inspector, be accompanied by any prescribed fee.
(3) The Chief Inspector must grant an application under subsection (1) (a) if—
(a) the applicant is not disqualified from registration by regulations under section 75, and
(b) it appears to the Chief Inspector that any requirements prescribed for the purposes of this subsection (“the prescribed requirements for registration”) are satisfied and are likely to continue to be satisfied.
(4) The Chief Inspector must refuse any application under subsection (1) (a) which subsection (3) does not require him to grant.
(4A) A later years childminder agency may grant an application under subsection (1)(b) only if—
(a) the applicant is not disqualified from registration by regulations under section 75,
(b) it appears to the agency that the prescribed requirements for registration are satisfied and are likely to continue to be satisfied, and
(c) it appears to the agency that any other reasonable requirements it has imposed are satisfied and are likely to continue to be satisfied.
(5) The prescribed requirements for registration may include requirements relating to—
(a) the applicant;
(aa) prohibiting the applicant from being registered in Part A of the general childcare register as a later years childminder with domestic premises if the applicant is registered with a childminder agency;
(ab) prohibiting the applicant from being registered with a later years childminder agency as a later years childminder with domestic premises if the applicant is registered—
(i) with another childminder agency;
(ii) in the early years register or the general childcare register;
(b) the premises on which the later years childminding is to be provided;
(c) the arrangements for later years childminding on those premises;
(d) any person who may be caring for children on those premises;
(e) any other person who may be on those premises.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/21/section/54 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006/section-54
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