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Regulation 2 Definitions

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In these Regulations—

  • “care standards complaint” means a complaint which—

    1. (a)

      relates to services provided by an establishment or agency in respect of which a person (“the registered person”) is required to be registered under section 11 of the Care Standards Act 2000f1; and

    2. (b)

      is not about the discharge of, or the failure to discharge, a relevant function;

  • “relevant function” means—

    1. (a)

      a social services function within the meaning of section 1A of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970f2; or

    2. (b)

      a function which is discharged by a local authority under arrangements made between a local authority and an NHS body under section 31 of the Health Act 1999f3,

    but does not include any function which may be the subject of representations under sections 24D or 26 of, or paragraph 6 of Schedule 7 to, the Children Act 1989f4;

  • “working day” means any day except a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday in England and Wales under section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971f5.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

2000 c. 14; section 11 was amended by the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38) (“the 2002 Act”), Schedule 3, paragraph 106 and by the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (“the 2003 Act”), Schedule 9, paragraph 20.

f2

1970 c. 42; section 1A was inserted by the Local Government Act 2000 (c. 22), section 102(3).

f3

1999 c. 8; section 31 was amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15), section 48, the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), Schedule 1, paragraph 53 and Schedule 5, paragraph 45 and the 2003 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 109.

f4

1989 c. 41; section 24D was inserted by section 5 of the the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 (c. 35) and amended by section 117(1) of the 2002 Act. Section 26 was amended by sections 117 and 118 of, and Schedule 5 to, the 2002 Act, by section 117(1) of the 2003 Act and by the Children Act 2004 (c. 31), Schedule 3, paragraph 8.

f5

1971 c. 80.