{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/section-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/section-34.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/34",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Offences relating to suspension or cancellation of registration",
  "text": "(1) If a person (“S”) who is registered under this Chapter as a service provider in respect of a regulated activity carries on that activity while S's registration is suspended, S is guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person (“M”) whose registration under this Chapter as a manager in respect of a regulated activity is suspended is guilty of an offence if, during the period of suspension, M manages that activity at a time when no one else has been registered under this Chapter as a manager in respect of the activity since the suspension of M's registration.\n(3) A person (“M”) whose registration under this Chapter as a manager in respect of a regulated activity has been cancelled is guilty of an offence if M manages that activity at a time when—\n(a) a person (“S”) remains registered under this Chapter as a service provider in respect of the activity,\n(b) S's registration remains subject to a registered manager condition, and\n(c) no-one has been registered under this Chapter as a manager in respect of the activity since the cancellation of M's registration.\n(4) If a person (“M”) who is registered under this Chapter as a manager in respect of a regulated activity manages that activity while the registration of the person registered under this Chapter as a service provider in respect of the activity is suspended, M is guilty of an offence if M knows or could reasonably be expected to know of the suspension.\n(5) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 34(5) substituted (12.3.2015) by The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/664), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 40(4) (with reg. 5(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 34(1)(5) in force at 1.4.2009 for specified purposes by S.I. 2009/462, art. 2, Sch. 1 para. 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 34(2)-(4) in force at 1.10.2010 by S.I. 2010/807, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 24 (with Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 34(5) in force at 1.10.2010 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2010/807, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 24 (with Pt. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/14/section/34",
    "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."
}