The Nursing Homes Registration (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/1320
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Nursing Homes Registration (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st August 1991.

(2) In these Regulations, a reference to “the principal Regulations ” is a reference to the Nursing Homes Registration (Scotland) Regulations 1990 .

Section 2 Amendment of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations

(1) Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (fees) is amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) There is substituted for paragraph (1) the following paragraph:–

(1) The amounts of the different fees (in this regulation referred to as “appropriate prescribed fees”) specified in column 2 of Schedule 2 shall be the amounts of those fees which a Health Board may impose under section 1A of the Act in respect of the different applications and other matters to which they respectively refer and which are described in column 1 of the said Schedule.

(3) In sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (2) there are substituted for the words “shall be submitted to the Health Board with” the words “may be imposed by the Health Board on receipt of”.

Section 3 Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations

(1) Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations (register of patients) is amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (2)–

(a) the words “from date of admission to date of discharge, the following particulars” are omitted;

(b) for sub-paragraphs (e), (f) and (g) there is substituted the following sub-paragraph:–

(e) any of the following particulars where they apply to the patient after his admission:–

(i) the date on which the patient is discharged from the nursing home;

(ii) if the patient is discharged to hospital, the date of and reasons for that discharge and the name of the hospital concerned; and

(iii) if the patient dies in the nursing home, the date, time and cause of death and the name of the medical practitioner who certifies the cause of death.

(3) In paragraph (3), there are inserted after the word “particulars” the words “where they apply to the patient”.

(4) For paragraph (4) there is substituted the following paragraph:–

(4) The register maintained in pursuance of this regulation shall be retained at the nursing home by the person registered and shall be maintained or caused to be maintained by him in respect of each patient for a minimum period of 3 years from the date of death or discharge of the patient.

Section 4 Amendment of regulation 6 of the principal Regulations

For regulation 6(4) of the principal Regulations (registers of staff and other persons providing professional services) there is substituted the following paragraph:–

(4) The registers maintained in pursuance of this regulation shall be retained at the nursing home by the person registered and shall be maintained or caused to be maintained by him in respect of each member of staff, practitioner or pharmacist entered in it–

(a) in the case of a member of staff, for a minimum period of 3 years from the date of cessation of his employment at the nursing home; and

(b) in the case of a practitioner or pharmacist, for so long as the nursing home is carried on.

Section 5 Amendment of regulation 9 of the principal Regulations

In paragraph (4) of regulation 9 of the principal Regulations (notices concerning death), for the words “General Manager” there are substituted the words “Chief Administrative Medical Officer and Director of Public Health”.

Section 6 Amendment of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations

In column 2 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations, for the sum of “£600” there is substituted “£678”.