Commentary on Sections Part 1 .Social Care Chapter 2 .Miscellaneous Amendments in Relation to Social Care Services, Social Care Workers and Local Authority Social Care Functions Section 16 – Cancellation and variation of service provider’s registration without application: notice procedures
74.Section 16 amends sections 13 and 15 of the 2016 Act, which set out the powers of the Welsh Ministers to vary a service provider’s registration (section 13) and cancel a service provider’s registration (section 15) subject to the improvement notice procedure (set out in sections 16 and 17 of the 2016 Act). Section 16 amends these sections such that the applicable notice procedure depends on the grounds on which the Welsh Ministers are proposing to vary or cancel the provider’s registration. As a result of these amendments, where variation or cancellation is on certain grounds in respect of which there is no improvement action that a service provider could be required to take, the notice of proposal procedure in section 18 of the 2016 Act will apply instead. This would apply, for example, where the service provider no longer provides a specific regulated service or the service provider no longer provides that regulated service at, from or in relation to a specific place.