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Child Care Centres Regulations

[1982 Ed.

[Subsidiary]

Inclusion in and

removal from the registers referred to in regulation 3. L.N. 90/80.

1..N. 90:80.

First Schedule.

Appointment of staff.

L.N. 90/80.

L.N. 317/82.

L.N. 90,80.

(c) a register of trainee child care workers, containing the name and address of every person holding the qualifica- tions specified in Part III of the First Schedule.

(2) The registers may, on application in writing to the Direc- tor, be inspected at the office of the Director during office hours by any member of the public.

4. (1) Application for inclusion in any of the registers referred to in regulation 3 shall be made to the Director in such form as he may specify.

(2) The Director shall, on receipt of an application in accord- ance with paragraph (1), determine the application—

(a) by including the name, address and qualifications of the

applicant in the appropriate register; or

(b) by refusing to include the applicant in any register.

(3) The Director may refuse to include an applicant in any register if it appears to him that the applicant is not a fit person, whether by reason of age or otherwise, to take part in the manage- ment of or be employed in a centre.

(4) The Director may remove the name of a person from any register on any ground specified in paragraph (3) which would have entitled him to refuse to include an applicant in a register.

(5) The Director may remove the name of any trainee worker from the register referred to in regulation 3(1)(c) if, within 1 year (or such longer period as he may permit) the trainee worker fails. to complete successfully the training course specified under para- graph (b) of Part III of the First Schedule.

5. (1) Every operator shall appoint for the purposes of the centre in respect of which he is registered-

(a) a supervisor, who shall be responsible for the management

of the centre; and

(b) a sufficient number of child care workers or, subject to paragraph (2), trainee workers to ensure compliance with regulation 6.

(1A) A supervisor appointed under paragraph (1)(a) for the purposes of a centre shall, unless the centre is one-

(a) which is not operated for more than 4 hours per day; and (b) to which not more than 28 children are admitted,

be a person whose name is contained in the register referred to in regulation 3(1)(a).

(2) Except with the consent in writing of the Director, the number of trainee workers appointed under paragraph (1)(b) shall not at any time exceed 1/3 of the total number of the staff of the centre concerned.