{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-homes-registration-scotland-regulations-1990/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-homes-registration-scotland-regulations-1990/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1310",
  "legislation_title": "The Nursing Homes Registration (Scotland) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-homes-registration-scotland-regulations-1990",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Notices concerning person in charge",
  "text": "(1) The person registered may confer, but only upon an individual who must be either a medical practitioner or a qualified nurse, or in the case of a maternity home either a medical practitioner or a registered midwife and qualified nurse, responsibility for the overall day-to-day running of the nursing home, and in such circumstances, for the purposes of the Act and these Regulations, that individual is with respect to the nursing home known as the “person in charge”.\n(2) The person registered shall notify the Health Board in writing of the name, address, age and professional qualifications of the person in charge, and provide details of the hours of daily duty of that person, together with similar personal details and hours of duty of any person who would, where necessary, deputise—\n(a) for the person in charge;\n(b) where no person in charge has been appointed, for the person registered.\n(3) The person registered shall within 72 hours of his learning of any change in any of the particulars previously given to the Health Board in accordance with paragraph (2) notify the Health Board in writing of that change.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3), the provisions of regulation 9(3) shall apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1310/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:18:28.560843+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."
}