{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurseries-and-child-minders-regulation-act-1948-repealed-14th-october-1991/section-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/11-12/53",
  "legislation_title": "Nurseries and Child-Minders Regulation Act 1948 (repealed 14th October 1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurseries-and-child-minders-regulation-act-1948-repealed-14th-october-1991",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Registration of nurseries and child-minders.",
  "text": "(1) Every local health authority shall keep registers—\n(a) of premises in their area, other than premises wholly or mainly used as private dwellings, where children are received to be looked after for the day or for a part or parts thereof of a duration, or an aggregate duration, of two hours or longer or for any longer period not exceeding six days;\n(b) of persons in their area who for reward receive into their homes children under the age of five to be looked after as aforesaid.\nThe registers kept under this subsection shall be open to inspection at all reasonable times.\n(2) Any person receiving or proposing to receive children as mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of the foregoing subsection may make application to the local health authoritythe local social services authority for registration thereunder, and on receipt of such an application the local health authoritythe local social services authority shall, subject to the provisions of this section, register the premises to which or person to whom the application relates.\n(3) The local health authoritythe local social services authority may by order refuse to register any premises if they are satisfied that any person employed or proposed to be employed in looking after children at the premises is not a fit person to look after children, or, where the premises were not at the commencement of this Act in use for the reception of children as mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section, if the local authority are satisfied that the premises are not fit (whether because of the condition thereof or of the equipment thereof or for any reason connected with the situation, construction or size thereof or with other persons therein) to be used for that purpose.\n(4) The local health authoritythe local social services authority may by order refuse to register any person if they are satisfied that that person, or any person employed or proposed to be employed by him in looking after children, is not a fit person to look after children or that the premises in which the children are received or proposed to be received are not fit (whether because of the condition thereof or of the equipment thereof or for any reason connected with the situation, construction or size thereof or with other persons therein) to be used for the purpose.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 (c. 46), s. 60(1)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words “the local social services authority” substituted (E.W.) for words “the local health authority” by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 23 para. 4(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words inserted by Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 (c. 46), s. 60(1)(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words inserted by Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 (c. 46), s. 60(1)(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 1 amended by Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 (c. 46), s. 60(1)(7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/53/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:22:43.292123+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."
}