Health (Nursing Homes) Act, 1990

Prohibition of unregistered nursing homes.

3.—(1) A person shall not carry on a nursing home unless the home is registered and the person is the registered proprietor thereof.

(2) A person shall not be in charge of a nursing home unless the home is registered.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) shall not apply during the period of one year beginning on the commencement of this Act to a person who is carrying on or in charge of a nursing home in any premises if, immediately before such commencement, a nursing home was being carried on in those premises.

(4) A person shall not, whether by advertisement or otherwise, hold out a nursing home as being registered unless it is registered.