Regulation 9 Amendment to requirement about fitness of managers of domiciliary support services in certain circumstances

in subparagraph (2)(e), at the beginning, insert “subject to paragraph (10) of this regulation”;

in paragraph (9), for the words from “section 1” to the end, substitute “section 87(1) of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012^f1”;

after paragraph (9) insert—

“(10)

Until 1 April 2020, the requirement under paragraph (2)(e) for a manager to be registered with Social Care Wales does not apply to a manager who is appointed to manage an undertaking—

(a)

in respect of which a person is registered, or has applied to register, as the provider of a domiciliary support service, and

(b)

in respect of which a person was registered as carrying on a nurses agency under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000^f2 immediately before 2 April 2018 but was not also registered as carrying on a domiciliary care agency.”