Health Act 2007
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Regulations respecting designated centres. |
101.— (1) Without limiting the generality of section 98 for the purpose of ensuring proper standards in relation to designated centres, the Minister— | |
(a) shall make regulations as the Minister thinks appropriate, and | ||
(b) may make different regulations for different purposes and for different categories of designated centres. | ||
(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), regulations under this section may provide as respects one or more of the following: | ||
(a) the maintenance, care, welfare and well-being of persons resident in a designated centre; | ||
(b) the numbers, qualifications and availability of persons employed in a designated centre; | ||
(c) the design, maintenance, repair, cleaning and cleanliness, ventilation, heating and lighting of a designated centre; | ||
(d) the accommodation (including the amount of space in bedrooms and wards, the washing facilities and the sanitary conveniences) provided in a designated centre; | ||
(e) the food provided for persons while resident in a designated centre; | ||
(f) the records to be kept in a designated centre; | ||
(g) the effecting by registered providers of designated centres of contracts of insurance against injury to persons resident in them; | ||
(h) the management and control of the operations of a designated centre; | ||
(i) the notification of incidents occurring in designated centres; | ||
(j) the giving of notice by the registered provider of periods during which— | ||
(i) the registered provider, or | ||
(ii) the manager, if the registered provider is not the manager of the designated centre, | ||
proposes to be absent from the designated centre, and specifying the information to be supplied in the notice; | ||
(k) adequate arrangements for the running of a designated centre during a period when the manager is absent from it. | ||
(3) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), regulations under this section— | ||
(a) may, subject to any regulations made under Part 9 of the Health Act 2004 , require registered providers— | ||
(i) to make adequate arrangements for dealing with complaints made by or on behalf of persons seeking or receiving any of the services provided through the designated centres, and | ||
(ii) to publicise the arrangements, | ||
(b) may prescribe for specified provisions of this Act to apply with prescribed modifications, if any, in cases where a person is appointed by or under the law to take charge of a designated centre in place of its registered provider, | ||
(c) may provide for a designated centre referred to in paragraph (b) to be carried on for a prescribed period by a person who is not registered in respect of it, and | ||
(d) may include provision for the prescribed period to be extended by a further period the chief inspector may allow. |