{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-quality-commission-registration-regulations-2009/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-quality-commission-registration-regulations-2009/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/3112",
  "legislation_title": "The Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-quality-commission-registration-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Health and Social Care Act 2008;\n“health service body” means an English NHS body, or NHS Blood and Transplant;\n“local authority” has the same meaning as in section 2B of the National Health Service Act 2006;\n“registered manager” means, in respect of a regulated activity, a person registered with the Commission under Chapter 2 of Part 1 of the Act as a manager in respect of that activity;\n“registered person” means, in respect of a regulated activity, the person who is the service provider or a registered manager in respect of that activity;\n“relevant address” means—\n(a)where the service provider is registered to carry on the regulated activity to which the enforcement action relates from one address, that address; or\n(b)where the service provider is registered to carry on the regulated activity from more than one address, any of those addresses to which the enforcement action is relevant;\n“service provider” means, in respect of a regulated activity, a person registered with the Commission under Chapter 2 of Part 1 of the Act as a service provider in respect of that activity;\n“service user” means a person who receives services provided in the carrying on of a regulated activity.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (1.4.2013) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 134(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (1.4.2013) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 134(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.4.2010, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“English NHS body” is defined in section 97(1) of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3112/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:00:32.268733+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}