Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016

Dealing with applications for registration or renewal

88Rules about applications for registration or renewal

(1)SCW must by rules make provision about how the registrar is to determine under section 83 whether a person’s fitness to practise is impaired on any of the grounds in section 117(1).

(2)Rules under subsection (1) may, in particular—

(a)require a person making an application for registration to provide information for the purpose of the registrar’s determination;

(b)provide that the information is to be provided to the registrar by means of a written declaration by the person making the application.

(3)SCW must also by rules make provision about the procedure to be followed by the registrar in dealing with—

(a)applications for registration in a part of the register, and

(b)where rules under section 86 provide for the renewal of an entry in the register, applications for renewal.

(4)Rules under subsection (3) may, in particular, make provision about—

(a)the period within which an application for registration or renewal of registration must be acknowledged;

(b)the information that must be provided by the registrar in response to an application;

(c)the period within which a notice under section 89 will be given;

(d)the information in support of an application that may be required by the registrar and the procedure to be followed by the registrar in requesting that information;

(e)circumstances in which the registrar may determine that an application has not been successful on the grounds that the person who made the application has failed to provide information required by the registrar within a period specified by the registrar;

(f)circumstances in which a fee for registration and, if relevant, renewal will be charged and circumstances in which such a fee may be reduced or waived.

89Notice of decisions in respect of registration or renewal

(1)Subsection (2) applies where the registrar decides to—

(a)grant an application for registration, or

(b)grant an application for renewal of registration.

(2)The registrar must give the person to whom the application relates notice of the decision.

(3)Subsection (4) applies where the registrar decides to—

(a)refuse an application for registration, or

(b)refuse an application for renewal of a person’s registration.

(4)The registrar must give the person to whom the decision relates notice—

(a)of the decision,

(b)of the reasons for the decision, and

(c)of the right of appeal under section 101.