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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND


2007 No. 223

HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES

The Regulation and Improvement Authority (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

  Made 29th March 2007 
  Coming into operation 30th April 2007 

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 13 (2),16 (3), 17(3), 40 (7) and 48(2) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003[1].

Citation, commencement and interpretation
     1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Regulation and Improvement Authority (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 30 April 2007.

    (2) In these regulations, "the principal regulations" means the Regulation and Improvement Authority (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005[
2].

Amendment of the Regulation and Improvement Authority (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005
     2. —(1) The principal regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs:

    (2) In regulation 3 (Registration fees)—

    (3) In regulation 4 (Variation Fees)—

    (4) In regulation 5 for the table there shall be substituted the following table—

Column (1) Column (2) Column (3) Column (4)
Establishment, agency Amount payable Amount payable for each approved place Annual fee due on
Residential Care Home;

Nursing Home;

           £46

£46

(a) in the case of an existing provider, the anniversary of the date on which the annual fee was payable under the 1992 Order or the 1995 Order and thereafter on that date;

Children's Home.            £46 (b) in the case of a previously exempt provider, registered from 1st April 2005, in accordance with Articles 4 to 7 of the Commencement No. 3 Order, on the anniversary of that date and thereafter on that date;

(c) in the case of a new provider, on the anniversary of the date on which the registration certificate was issued and thereafter on that date.

Nursing agency £15 (a) in the case of an existing provider, on the anniversary of the date on which the licence was first issued under the 1971 Act and thereafter on the anniversary of that date;

(b) in the case of a new provider, on the anniversary of the date on which the registration certificate is issued and thereafter on that date.

Independent Hospital            £46 (a) in the case of an existing provider, the anniversary of the date on which the annual fee was payable under the 1992 Order and thereafter on that date;

(b) in the case of a new provider, on the anniversary of the date on which the registration certificate is issued and thereafter on that date.

Independent Clinic £215 (a) in the case of an existing provider, the anniversary of the date on which the annual fee was payable under the 1992 Order and thereafter on that date;

(c) in the case of a new provider, on the anniversary of the date on which the registration certificate is issued and thereafter on that date.

Independent Medical Agency £215 on the anniversary of the date on which the registration certificate is issued and thereafter on that date
Domiciliary Care Agency Nil Nil           
Day Care Setting Nil Nil           
Residential Family Centre Nil Nil           
Adult Placement Agency Nil Nil           

    
3. In regulation 6—

    (1) in paragraph (1) for "paragraphs 2 to 5" there shall be substituted "paragraphs 2 to 5A".

    (2) after paragraph (5) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—



Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on


29th March 2007.

L.S.


M. Briscoe
A senior officer of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations further amend the Regulation and Improvement Authority (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (the principal regulations).

Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends Part II of the principal regulations to include reference to establishments and agencies which have been regulated from 30 April 2007 — a domiciliary care agency, a day care setting, a residential family centre and an adult placement agency.

Fee charges for these new establishments and agencies have been set at nil pending full consideration and review of an appropriate fee charging structure.


Notes:

[1] S.I. 2003/431 (N.I. 9)back

[2] S.R. 2005 No. 182 as amended by S.R. 2006 No. 341back



ISBN 978 0 337 97011 5


 © Crown copyright 2007

Prepared 9 May 2007


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