{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/14",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Regulations about registration",
  "text": "Regulations may make provision for the purposes of this Chapter about—\n(a) the keeping by the Commission of registers,\n(b) the making of applications for registration as a service provider or manager,\n(c) the registration of persons as service providers or managers, and\n(d) the notification by registered persons to the Commission of an address for service of documents.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 1 modified (E.W.) (6.4.2015) by Care Act 2014 (c. 23), ss. 57(1), 127(1); S.I. 2015/993, art. 4 (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2015/995)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Pt. 1 modified (E.W.) (6.4.2015) by Care Act 2014 (c. 23), ss. 57(1)(2), 127(1); S.I. 2015/993, art. 4 (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2015/995)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 partly in force; S. 16 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 170"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 1.4.2009 for specified purposes by S.I. 2009/462, art. 2, Sch. 1 para. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 11.12.2009 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2009/3023, art. 2(a) (with arts. 3-17) (as amended (8.2.2010) by S.I. 2010/47, art. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/14/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:00.738432+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."
}