{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-homes-act-1984-repealed/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-homes-act-1984-repealed/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/23",
  "legislation_title": "Registered Homes Act 1984 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-homes-act-1984-repealed",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Annual fee for registration.",
  "text": "(1)The Secretary of State may by regulations—\n(a) require persons registered in respect of residential care homes to pay an annual fee of such amount as the regulations may specify; and\n(b) specify when the fee is to be paid.\n(2) In the case of registration in respect of a small home, the registration authority may waive the whole or part of the annual fee; and in such a case the reference in section 10(b) below to the annual fee shall be construed as a reference to such annual fee (if any) as may be payable.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 8 renumbered as s. 8(1) and s. 8(2) inserted (1.4.1993) by Registered Homes (Amendment) Act 1991 (c. 20, SIF 113:3), s. 1(5); S.I. 1992/2240, art.2"
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 8: ss. 5(1), 8 and 16(1) (with s. 56(4)) power exercised by S.I.1991/2502."
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P2",
      "text": "S. 8: power previously exercised by S.I. 1984/1345, 1986/457 and 1988/1192."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/23/section/8",
    "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."
}