Nursing Homes and Residential Homes (Guernsey) (Amendment) Law, 2006

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The Nursing Homes and Residential Homes (Guernsey) (Amendment) Law, 2006

THE STATES, in pursuance of their Resolution of the 26^th July, 2006[a], have approved the following provisions which, subject to the Sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, shall have force of law in the Islands of Guernsey, Herm and Jethou.

Amendment of the 1976 Law.

1. The Nursing Homes and Residential Homes (Guernsey) Law, 1976[b] ("the 1976 Law") is amended as follows -

(a) immediately after section 1(5) of the 1976 Law, insert -

"(6) Subject to subsection (7), there shall be payable in respect of a registration such annual renewal fee, payable on or before such date, as the States may, from time to time, by Ordinance prescribe.

(7) The Department may grant exemption from the requirement of subsection (6) in respect of any home which is funded primarily by charitable means.",

(b) immediately after "home" in the final line of section 2 of the 1976 Law, insert -

", or on the ground that any annual renewal fee payable under subsection 1(6) has not been paid on or before the due date", and

"Ordinances and orders.

13. (1) An Ordinance or order under this Law -

(a) may be amended or repealed by a subsequent Ordinance or order hereunder, and

(b) may contain such transitional, consequential, incidental, supplementary and savings provisions as the States or Department, as the case may be, think fit.

(2) Any power conferred by this Law to make an Ordinance or order may be exercised -

(a) in relation to all cases to which the power extends, or in relation to all those cases subject to specified exceptions, or in relation to any specified cases or classes of cases,

(b) so as to make, as respects the cases in relation to which it is exercised -

(i) the full provision to which the power extends, or any lesser provision (whether by way of exception or otherwise),

(ii) the same provision for all cases, or different provision for different cases or classes of cases, or different provision for the same case or class of case for different purposes, and

(iii) any such provision either unconditionally or subject to any prescribed conditions.

(3) Any order made under this Law shall be laid before a meeting of the States as soon as may be after being made and if at that meeting or the next subsequent meeting the States resolve that the order be annulled, the order shall cease to have effect but without prejudice to anything done under the order or to the making of a new order.".

Citation.

2. This Law may be cited as the Nursing Homes and Residential Homes (Guernsey) (Amendment) Law 2006.

M. A. TOSTEVIN,

Her Majesty's Deputy Greffier

[a]	Article XVI of Billet d'État No. XIII of 2006.
[b]	Ordres en Conseil Vol. XXVI, p. 71.