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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 and shall come into operation on 29th October 2010.
(2) In these regulations “the principal regulations” means the Regulation and Improvement Authority (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005.
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(1) The principal regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs:
(2) In regulation 3 (Registration fees) —
(a) After paragraph (1) (c) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph —“
(d) an application by a person seeking to be registered under Part III of the Order as a person who carries on an agency, which is a voluntary adoption agency, shall be nil.”;
(b) After paragraph (2) (c) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph —“
(d) in the case of an application referred to in paragraph (1) (d), nil.”;
(c) After paragraph (3) (c) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph —“
(d) in respect of a voluntary adoption agency, shall be nil.”.
(3) In regulation 4 (Variation Fees)—
(a) After paragraph (1) (c) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph —“
(d) in the case of a voluntary adoption agency, nil.”;
(b) After paragraph (2) (c) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph —“
(d) in the case of an application referred to in paragraph (1) (d), nil.”;
(c) After paragraph (3) (c) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph —“
(d) in the case of an application referred to in paragraph (1) (d), nil.”.
(4) In regulation 5 there shall be inserted at the end of the Table the following entry in the appropriate columns —

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4
Voluntary Adoption Agency Nil Nil 
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In regulation 6 (Frequency of Inspections) —
(1) in paragraph (1) for “paragraphs (2) to (5A)”  there shall be substituted“
 paragraphs (2) to (5B)”.
(2) after paragraph (5A) there shall be inserted the following paragraph —“
(5B) An agency, whose premises are used as a voluntary adoption agency, shall be inspected, on a minimum of once every 3 years”
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 3rd September 2010
J.F Livingstone
A senior officer of the
Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
