Under what circumstances a voluntary sector agency is obliged to register with the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care.

Providers of all the services defined at sections 2 and 8 of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001, including voluntary sector providers, will, through time, be required to register them with the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care. The commission has been regulating all the services regulated under the previous local authority and health board registration and inspection regime since 1 April 2002. Some services which were new to regulation have been regulated since October 2002, and others from April 2003. Regulation of the rest of the services defined in the act is being phased in.