Section 79W: Requirement for certificate of suitability.

Children Act 1989 · 1989 c. 41View on legislation.gov.uk

Part XA: Child Minding and Day Care for Children in . . . Wales

This section applies to any person not required to register under this Part who looks after, or provides care for, children in Wales and meets the following conditions.

The first condition is that the period, or the total of the periods, in any week which he spends looking after children or (as the case may be) during which the children are looked after exceeds five hours.

The second condition is that he would be required to register under this Part (or, as the case may be, this Part if it were subject to prescribed modifications) if the children were under the age of eight.

Regulations may require a person to whom this section applies to hold a certificate issued by the Assembly as to his suitability, and the suitability of each prescribed person, to look after children.

The regulations may make provision about—

applications for certificates;
the matters to be taken into account by the Assembly in determining whether to issue certificates;
the information to be contained in certificates;
the period of their validity.

The regulations may provide that a person to whom this section applies shall be guilty of an offence—

if he does not hold a certificate as required by the regulations; or
if, being a person who holds such a certificate, he fails to produce it when reasonably required to do so by a prescribed person.

The regulations may provide that a person who, for the purpose of obtaining such a certificate, knowingly makes a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence.

The regulations may provide that a person guilty of an offence under the regulations shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

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