{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006/section-90",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006/section-90.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/21",
  "legislation_title": "Childcare Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006",
  "path": "section/90",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "90",
  "heading": "Cases where consent to disclosure withheld",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where the Chief Inspector—\n(a) is determining, for the purpose of deciding whether to grant an application for registration under any of Chapters 2 to 4, whether the prescribed requirements for registration are satisfied and are likely to be continued to be satisfied, or\n(b) is determining, for the purpose of deciding whether to cancel the registration of any person under section 68(2)(a) or 69B(2)(a), whether the prescribed requirements for registration have ceased, or will cease, to be satisfied.\n(2) The Chief Inspector may, if regulations so provide and he thinks it appropriate to do so, treat the prescribed requirements for registration as not being satisfied or (as the case may be) as having ceased to be satisfied if for the purpose of his determination—\n(a) the Chief Inspector has requested a person (“A”) to consent to the disclosure by another person (“B”) to the Chief Inspector of information which—\n(i) relates to A,\n(ii) is held by B, and\n(iii) is of a prescribed description, and\n(b) A does not give ... consent or withdraws ... consent after giving it.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(1)(a) substituted (1.4.2014 for specified purposes, 1.9.2014 in so far as not already in force) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), s. 139(6), Sch. 4 para. 59(2)(a); S.I. 2014/889, arts. 3(m), 7(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(1)(b) inserted (1.4.2014 for specified purposes, 1.9.2014 in so far as not already in force) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), s. 139(6), Sch. 4 para. 59(2)(b); S.I. 2014/889, arts. 3(m), 7(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(2)(b) omitted (1.4.2014 for specified purposes, 1.9.2014 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), s. 139(6), Sch. 4 para. 59(3); S.I. 2014/889, arts. 3(m), 7(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 90 in force at 20.12.2006 for specified purposes by S.I. 2006/3360, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 90 in force at 6.4.2007 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2007/1019, art. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/21/section/90",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:29.405916+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."
}