# The Nursing Homes Registration (Scotland) Regulations 1988, Regulation 16: Transitional provisions


(1) Where at the date of the coming into force of these Regulations a person is registered in accordance with the Act in respect of a named nursing home, that person shall, if he wishes to continue to be registered to carry on that home, within 90 days of the said date make application for registration in accordance with regulation 2(1).
(2) An applicant to whom paragraph (1) applies shall submit with the particular written application the prescribed fee exigible in respect of an application for continuation of registration.
(3) An applicant who makes an application in accordance with paragraph (1) shall continue to be registered in accordance with the Act until such time as either—
(a) the Health Board refuse the application and the relevant period for lodging an appeal has expired, or if an appeal has been lodged then it has been finally dealt with; or
(b) the Health Board grant the application.
(4) A person who at the date of the coming into force of these Regulations is registered in accordance with the Act but who does not make an application for registration as provided for in paragraph (1) above, shall at the expiry of the ninetieth day from that date cease to be registered in accordance with the Act.
(5) From the date of grant of an application made in accordance with paragraph (1), the person registered shall be obliged to comply with the provisions of these Regulations.
(6) Where at the date of coming into force of these Regulations, a person has applied to be registered in accordance with the Act but the application has not been either granted or refused, the application shall be treated as if it had been made in accordance with regulation 2(1) but the prescribed fee exigible under these Regulations in respect of an application for registration shall not be payable.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1861/regulation/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-homes-registration-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-16
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