S.I. No. 430/2017 - Health Act 2007 (Registration of Designated Centres for Older People) (Amendment) Regulations 2017.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Health Act 2007 (Registration of Designated Centres for Older People) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 and shall come into operation on the 2nd day of October 2017.

2. Regulation 2 of the Health Act 2007 (Registration of Designated Centres for Older People) Regulations 2015 (

S.I. No. 61 of 2015

) is amended by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “designated centre for older people”

“ ‘designated centre for older people’ means a designated centre for older people to which paragraph (

a

)(iii) or paragraph (

c

) of the definition of ‘designated centre’ (amended by section 97 of, and Item I of Part 20 of Schedule 2 to, the

Child and Family Agency Act 2013

(No. 40 of 2013)) in section 2 of the Act applies;”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

2 October 2017.

SIMON HARRIS,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

This is a technical amendment to the Health Act 2007 (Registration of Designated Centres for Older People) Regulations 2015.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

6

th October

, 2017.

I, SIMON HARRIS, Minister for Health in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

sections 98

,

99

and

101

of the

Health Act 2007

(No. 23 of 2007) (as adapted by the Health and Children (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011 (

S.I. No. 219 of 2011

)), hereby make the following regulations