uksi/2018/231 — The Blood Safety and Quality Regulations and the Care and Support (Business Failure) Regulations (Consequential Amendments) Order 2018

2018 No. 231 Health And Safety Social Care The Blood Safety and Quality Regulations and the Care and Support (Business Failure) Regulations (Consequential Amendments) Order 2018 Made 22nd February 2018 Laid before Parliament 26th February 2018 Coming into force 1st April 2018 The Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 150(1) of the Government of Wales Act 2006 . Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Blood Safety and Quality Regulations and the Care and Support (Business Failure) Regulations (Consequential Amendments) Order 2018 and comes into force on 1st April 2018. Amendment of the Blood Safety and Quality Regulations 2005 2 In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation) of the Blood Safety and Quality Regulations 2005 , in paragraph (3)— a in the definition of “care home” — i in paragraph (a), omit “and Wales”; ii at the end of paragraph (b), omit “and”; iii in paragraph (c), after “2003” insert— , and in Wales, means a place at which a care home service, within the meaning of Paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 , is provided wholly or mainly to persons aged 18 or over ; b in the definition of “registered person” — i at the end of paragraph (a), omit “and”; ii in paragraph (b), omit “Wales,”; iii at the end of paragraph (b), insert— and in Wales,— the person registered with Social Care Wales as the manager of a place at which a care home service, within the meaning of Paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016, is provided wholly or mainly to persons aged 18 or over , or the person registered as the manager of an independent hospital or independent clinic following an application to be registered as such pursuant to section 12(3) of the Care Standards Act 2000 ; . Amendment of the Care and Support (Business Failure) Regulations 2015 3 1 The Care and Support (Business Failure) Regulations 2015 are amended as follows. 2 In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation), in paragraph (4), in the definition of “a provider”— a at the end of paragraph (b), omit “or”; b in paragraph (c), after “agency” insert— , or a person registered under Part 1 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016; . 3 In regulation 2 (business failure), in paragraph 1(b), after “agency” insert “or a regulated service, within the meaning of section 2 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016,”. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. Caroline Dinenage Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Care 22nd February 2018 EXPLANATORY NOTE (This Note is not part of the Order) This Order amends the Blood Safety and Quality Regulations 2005 ( S.I. 2005/50 ) and the Care and Support (Business Failure) Regulations 2015 ( S.I. 2015/301 ). In consequence of changes to the regulation of social care services effected by the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016, article 2 amends the definitions of “care home” and “registered person” in the Blood Safety and Quality Regulations 2005. Article 3 amends the definition of “a provider” in the Care and Support (Business Failure) Regulations 2015 and amends regulation 2(1)(b) to include “a regulated service”. A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.