Nurseries and Child-Minders Regulation Act, 1948 / 11 & 12 Geo. 6. Ch. 53.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
1948]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Nurseries and Child-Minders Regulation Act, 1948 / 11 & 12 Geo. 6. Ch. 53. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Power to impose requirements in connection with - registration. Cu. 53. Nurseries and Child-Minders 11 & 12 GEO. 6. Regulation Act, 1948. (3) The local health authority may by order refuse to register any premises if they are satisfied that any person employed or proposed to be employed in looking after children at the premises is not a fit person to look after children, or, where the premises were not at the commencement of this Act in use for the reception of children as mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section, if the local authority are satisfied that the premises are not fit to be used for that purpose. (4) The local health authority may by order ae to register any person if they are satisfied that that person, or any person employed or proposed to be employed by him in looking after children, is not a fit person to look after children or that the premises in which the children are received or proposed to be received are not fit (whether because of the condition thereof or for any reason connected with other persons therein) to be used - for the purpose. 2.—(Z) The local health authority may by order require that no greater number of children shall be received in premises registered under the foregoing section than may be ot in the order. (2) The local health authority may by order require in the case of a person registered under the foregoing section that the number of children received in his home as mentioned in para- graph (b) of subsection (1) of that section, together with any number as may be specified in the order. (3) The local health authority may by order made as respects any premises or person registered under the foregoing section require the taking of precautions against the exposure of the children received in the premises to infectious diseases. (4) The local health authority may by order made as respects any premises registered under the foregoing section impose requirements for securing— (a) that a person with such qualifications as may be specified by the authority shall be in charge of the premises and of the persons employed thereat ; (6) that the premises shall be adequately staffed, both as respects the number and as respects the qualifications or experience of the persons employed thereat, and adequately equipped ;. (c) in the case of premises which at the commencement of this Act were in use for the reception of children as mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section one of this Act, that such repairs shall be carried out on