This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2009/3112 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument
Statutory Instruments
2010 No. 49
National Health Service, England
Social Care, England
Public Health, England
The Care Quality Commission (Registration) Amendment Regulations 2010
Made
11th January 2010
Laid before Parliament
15th January 2010
Coming into force
1st April 2010
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 86(2), 87 and 161(3) and (4) of the Health and Social Care Act 2008( 1 ).
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Care Quality Commission (Registration) Amendment Regulations 2010 and shall come into force on 1st April 2010.
Penalty notices for offences created by regulation 25 of the Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 2009
2. After regulation 25 (offences) of the Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 2009( 2 ) insert—
“ Penalty notices
26. —(1) The offence created by regulation 25 is prescribed as a fixed penalty offence for the purposes of section 86 of the Act.
(2) The monetary amount of the penalty for that fixed penalty offence is—
(a) £1250 in the case of an offence committed by a person registered with the Commission as a service provider under Chapter 2 of Part 1 of the Act; and
(b) £625 in the case of an offence committed by a person registered with the Commission under that Chapter as a manager. ” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Mike O’Brien
Minister of State,
Department of Health
11th January 2010
2008 c.14 . “Prescribed” and “regulations” are defined in section 97(1) of that Act.