Regulation 10 Fitness of registered providerI1

England and Wales

(1)

A person must not carry on an establishment or agency unless the person is fit to do so.

(2)

A person is not fit to carry on an establishment or agency unless the person—

(a)

is an individual who satisfies the requirements set out in paragraph (3); or

(b)

is an organisation and—

(i)

the organisation has given notice to the appropriate office of the registration authority of the name, address and position in the organisation of an individual (in these Regulations referred to as “the responsible individual”) who is a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the organisation and is responsible for supervising the management of the establishment or agency; and

(ii)

that individual satisfies the requirements set out in paragraph (3).

(3)

The requirements are that—

(a)

the individual is of suitable integrity and good character to carry on, or, as the case may be, be responsible for the supervision of the management of, the establishment or agency;

(b)

the individual is physically and mentally fit to carry on, or, as the case may be, be responsible for the supervision of the management of, the establishment or agency; and

(c)

full and satisfactory information or documentation, as the case may be, is available in relation to the individual in respect of each of the matters specified in paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 to 8 of Schedule 2.

(4)

A person is not fit to carry on an establishment or agency if—

(a)

the person has been F1made bankrupt or sequestration of the person’s estate has been awarded and (in either case) the person has not been discharged and the bankruptcy order has not been annulled or rescinded or a moratorium period under a debt relief order applies in relation to the person; or

(b)

the person has made a composition or arrangement with the person’s creditors and has not been discharged in respect of it.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Word in reg. 10(4)(a) substituted (6.4.2016) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments) (Bankruptcy) and the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/481), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 15(a)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 10 in force at 5.4.2011, see reg. 1(1)