Citation, commencement and interpretation

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Care and Support (Business Failure) Regulations 2015.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations come into force on the day on which section 52(12) of the Act comes fully into force( 2 ).

(3) Insofar as these Regulations make provision for the purposes of—

(a) section 50 of the Act( 3 ), and

(b) section 52 of the Act insofar as it relates to section 50,

they come into force for those purposes on the day on which section 50 of the Act comes fully into force.

(4) In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Care Act 2014;

“the 1986 Act” means the Insolvency Act 1986( 4 );

“the 1989 Order” means the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989( 5 );

“a members’ voluntary winding up” means a winding up where a statutory declaration has been made under section 89 of the 1986 Act or article 75 of the 1989 Order( 6 );

“a provider” means—

“the relevant amount” means the amount specified in section 123(1)(a) of the 1986 Act (definition of inability to pay debts) or article 103(1)(a) of the 1989 Order (definition of inability to pay debts; the statutory demand) as the case may be.

Business failure

2. —(1) For the purposes of sections 48 and 50 to 52 of the Act—

(a) business failure has the meaning given in paragraphs (2) to (5); and

(b) a provider is to be treated as unable to carry on a regulated activity( 10 ) or to carry on or manage an establishment or agency because of business failure if the provider’s inability to do so follows business failure.

(2) Where a provider is not an individual, business failure means that, in respect of that provider—

(a) the appointment of an administrator (within the meaning given by paragraph 1(1) of Schedule B1 to the 1986 Act( 11 ) or paragraph 2(1) of Schedule B1 to the 1989 Order( 12 )) takes effect;

(b) a receiver is appointed;

(c) an administrative receiver as defined in section 251 of the 1986 Act( 13 ) or article 5 of the 1989 Order is appointed;

(d) a resolution for a voluntary winding up is passed other than in a members’ voluntary winding up;

(e) a winding up order is made;

(f) an order by virtue of article 11 of the Insolvent Partnerships Order 1994 (joint bankruptcy petition by individual members of insolvent partnership)( 14 ) is made;

(g) an order by virtue of article 11 of the Insolvent Partnerships Order (Northern Ireland) 1995 (joint bankruptcy petition by individual members of insolvent partnership)( 15 ) is made;

(h) the charity trustees of the provider become unable to pay their debts as they fall due;

(i) every member of the partnership (in a case where the provider is a partnership) is adjudged bankrupt; or

(j) a voluntary arrangement proposed for the purposes of Part 1 of the 1986 Act( 16 ) or Part 2 of the 1989 Order has been approved under that Part of that Act or Order.

(3) In relation to a provider who is an individual, business failure means that—

(a) the individual is adjudged bankrupt; or

(b) a voluntary arrangement pursuant to Part 8 of the 1986 Act or Part 8 of the 1989 Order is proposed by or entered into by the individual.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(h), a person is a charity trustee of a provider if—

(a) the provider is a charity that is unincorporated; and

(b) the person is a trustee of that charity.

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(h), the charity trustees of a provider are to be treated as becoming unable to pay their debts as they fall due if—

(a) a creditor to whom the trustees are indebted in a sum exceeding the relevant amount then due has served on the trustees a written demand requiring the trustees to pay the sum so due and the trustees have for 3 weeks thereafter neglected to pay the sum or to secure or compound for it to the reasonable satisfaction of the creditor;

(b) in England and Wales, execution or other process issued on a judgment, decree or order of a court in favour of a creditor of the trustees is returned unsatisfied in whole or in part;

(c) in Scotland, the induciae of a charge for payment on an extract decree, or an extract registered bond, or an extract registered protest, have expired without payment being made; or

(d) in Northern Ireland, a certificate of unenforceability has been granted in respect of a judgment against the trustees.