{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-health-security-eu-exit-regulations-2021/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2021/9780348224375",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Security (EU Exit) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-health-security-eu-exit-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Committee” means the UK Health Protection Committee established under regulation 4(1);\n“communicable disease” means any infectious disease caused by a contagious agent which is transmitted from person to person by direct contact with an infected individual or by indirect means such as exposure to a vector, animal, fomite, product or environment, or exchange of fluid which is contaminated with the contagious agent;\n“health threat” means a condition, agent or incident which may cause, directly or indirectly, ill health;\n“IHR” means the International Health Regulations (2005) of the World Health Organisation adopted by the fifty-eighth World Health Assembly on 23rd May 2005;\n“monitoring” means the continuous observation, detection or review of changes in a condition, in a situation, or in activities, including a continuous function that uses systematic collection of data and analysis on specified indicators relating to serious cross-border health threats;\n“part of the United Kingdom” means England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland;\n“related special health matters” means antimicrobial resistance and healthcare associated infections related to communicable diseases;\n“relevant Minister” means—\n(a) in England, the Secretary of State;\n(b) in Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;\n(c) in Wales, the Welsh Ministers;\n(d) in Northern Ireland, a Minister within the meaning of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 or a Northern Ireland department;\n“serious cross-border health threat” has the meaning given in regulation 5;\n“TCA” means the Trade and Cooperation Agreement within the meaning in section 37(1) of the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020;\n“UK authority” means in respect of a part of the United Kingdom—\n(a) the UK public health agency for that part; and\n(b) the relevant Minister for that part;\n“UK focal point” means the national focal point for the United Kingdom designated by the Secretary of State for the purposes of Title 1 of Part 4 of the TCA and notified to the European Union.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "https://www.who.int/ihr/publications/9789241596664/en. The World Health Organization is a specialised agency within the terms of Article 57 of the Charter of the United Nations. A hard copy can be obtained from the Department of Health and Social Care, UK Health Security Team, 39 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0EU."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "This is entitled “Thematic Cooperation Title I: Health Security Article 702: Cooperation on health security”. Public Health England is currently designated as the UK focal point. See paragraph 4 of that Part about designation of a focal point."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348224375/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:47:04.301890+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."
}