Regulation 1 Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Commission for Social Care Inspection (Explanation and Co-operation) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 1st April 2004.

(2)

Regulations 1 and 3 apply to England and Wales.

(3)

Regulation 2 applies to England only.

(4)

In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003;
“service provider” means a person other than a local authority^f1 who provides, has provided or has agreed to provide an English local authority social service^f2.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: See section 148 of the Act for the definition of “local authority”.
f2: See section 148 of the Act for the definition of “English local authority social service”.