Housing and Regeneration Bill

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her point. We take the view that it is right that deregistration is at the discretion of the regulator, otherwise providers might leave regulation by accident or even by deliberate action—for example, by changing their management so they no longer meet the registration criteria. That would not be right. Amendment No. 107BC extends the period of notice which the regulator must give to a body that it proposes to remove from the register from 14 days to 42 days. The combined effect of Amendment Nos. 107BB and 107BC would be that the regulator must give a body about to be removed from the register 42 days’ notice, except where the body no longer exists. I can see why the noble Baroness thinks there is no point in the regulator trying to notify a body that no longer exists. However, there is no need for the amendment; the provision cannot require the regulator to give notice to a body that is no longer in existence.