CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 11



11.(1) Subject to the succeeding provisions of this Part, a person shall not
(whether for reward or not) regularly receive into any premises one or more
children to be looked after for more than two hours in the day on more than
two occasions in each week unless the premises are registered by [the Ministry
of Home Affairs] in the register kept under subsection (2).

(2) [The Ministry of Home Affairs] shall keep a register of premises ... into
which children are received as mentioned in subsection (1), and the register
shall be open to inspection by any person at all reasonable times.

(3) Any person receiving or proposing to receive children into any premises as
mentioned in subsection (1) may make application to [the Ministry of Home
Affairs] ... for registration of the premises under this section; and on
receipt of such an application [the Ministry] shall, subject to the provisions
of subsection (5), register the premises to which the application relates.

(4) An application under subsection (3) shall state

(a)the name and address of the applicant;

(b)the address of the premises;

(c)the number of children to be received;

(d)the name and address of every person who is, or is proposed to be, employed
in looking after the children;

(e)the names of all persons who reside in the premises and, where any of those
persons are children, their ages;

(f)whether or not in the case of the applicant, or of any person such as is
mentioned in paragraph (d), or of any person such as is mentioned in paragraph
(e) who is over the age of sixteen, any of the facts mentioned in paragraphs
(a) to (e) of section 3(1) obtains.

(5) [The Ministry of Home Affairs] may refuse to register any premises if they
are satisfied that the applicant, 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 children are received or proposed to be
received are not fit to be used for the purpose.

(6) For the purposes of subsection (5) premises may be regarded as not fit

(a)because of the condition of the premises or for any reason connected with
the situation, construction or size thereof; or

(b)because of the condition of any equipment in the premises, or the absence
of any equipment therefrom; or

(c)for any reason connected with any person in the premises.

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 11