{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-homes-act-1984-repealed/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-homes-act-1984-repealed/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/23",
  "legislation_title": "Registered Homes Act 1984 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-homes-act-1984-repealed",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Regulations as to conduct of residential care homes.",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may make regulations as to the conduct of residential care homes, and in particular—\n(a) as to the facilities and services to be provided in such homes;\n(b) as to the numbers and qualifications of staff to be employed in such homes;\n(c) as to the numbers of suitably qualified and competent staff to be on duty in such homes;\n(d) as to the records to be kept and notices to be given in respect of persons received into such homes;\n(e) as to the notification of events occurring in such homes;\n(f) as to the giving of notice by a person of a description specified in the regulations of periods during which any person of a description so specified proposes to be absent from a home;\n(g) as to the information to be supplied in such a notice;\n(h) making provision for children under the age of 18 years who are resident in such homes to receive a religious upbringing appropriate to the religious persuasion to which they belong;\n(j) as to the form of registers to be kept by registration authorities for the purposes of this Part of this Act and the particulars to be contained in them; and\n(k) as to the information to be supplied on an application for registration.\n(2) Regulations under this section may provide that a contravention of or failure to comply with any specified provision of the regulations shall be an offence against the regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 16: power previously exercised by S.I. 1984/1345; 1986/457; 1988/1192."
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P2",
      "text": "S. 16(1): ss. 5(1), 8 and 16(1) (with s. 56(4)) power exercised by S.I.1991/2502."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/23/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:03:04.654679+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."
}