{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-agencies-wales-regulations-2003/regulation-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-agencies-wales-regulations-2003/regulation-28.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2003/2527",
  "legislation_title": "The Nurses Agencies (Wales) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-agencies-wales-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/28",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Fees",
  "text": "(1) The Registration of Social Care and Independent Healthcare (Fees) (Wales) Regulations 2002 are amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.\n(2) In the paragraph headed “Arrangement of Regulations”, the following line is added at the end “13. Annual fee – nurses agencies”.\n(3) In regulation 2(1) —\n(a) after the definition of “the Act” add —\n““the 1957 Act” means the Nurses Agencies Act 1957”;\n(b) after the words\n““agency” means a fostering agency”\nadd the words “or nurses agency”;\n(c) in the definition of “existing undertaking” add at the appropriate place —\n“(e) a nurses agency that is licensed immediately before 2nd October 2003 under the 1957 Act;”.\n(4) After regulation 12 (Annual fee – fostering agencies and local authority fostering services), insert the following regulation —\n“Annual fee – nurses agencies\n13. (1) The annual fee in respect of a nurses agency is £500.\n(2) The annual fee in respect of a nurses agency shall be first payable by the registered provider on the date specified in respect of him or her in paragraph (3) (“the first date”) and thereafter on the anniversary of the first date.\n(3) The specified date is —\n(a) in the case of the registered provider of a nurses agency that is an existing undertaking —\n(i) in a case where a licence fee was payable under the 1957 Act in respect of the undertaking, the anniversary of the date on which the last fee was payable;\n(ii) in any other case, 31st December 2003;\n(b) in the case of a registered provider who is a new provider, the date on which a certificate of registration is first issued under Part II of the Act in respect of that registered provider of the nurses agency.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/921 as amended by S.I. 2003/237 and S.I. 2003/781."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/2527/regulation/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:10:28.376725+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."
}