{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/delayed-discharges-england-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/delayed-discharges-england-regulations-2003/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2277",
  "legislation_title": "The Delayed Discharges (England) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/delayed-discharges-england-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Act 2003;\n“continuing NHS care” means a package of care which is arranged and funded solely by NHS bodies to meet a person’s continuing care needs;\n“health service body” means—\n(a) a Strategic Health Authority;\n(b) a Special Health Authority;\n(c) an NHS body;\n(d) a pilot scheme health service body within the meaning of section 16(6) of the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997; or\n(e) a PHS body within in the meaning of section 33(6) of the Health and Social Care Act 2001;\n“higher rate authorities” means those social services authorities listed in the Schedule;\n“lower rate authorities” means those social services authorities which are not higher rate authorities;\n“panel” means a panel to assist in the resolution of disputes between two or more authorities about matters arising under or in relation to Part 1 of the Act; and\n“public holiday” means a public holiday in England and Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 1(1) of the Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Act 2003 (“the Act”) for the definition of NHS body."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 1(1) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1997 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2001 c. 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "See section 12 of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/235",
      "affecting_title": "The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/562",
      "affecting_title": "The General Dental Services, Personal Dental Services and Abolition of the Dental Practice Board Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2277/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:00:06.602189+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."
}