{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-involvement-networks-duty-of-services-providers-to-allow-entry-regulations-2008/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-involvement-networks-duty-of-services-providers-to-allow-entry-regulations-2008/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110809311",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Involvement Networks (Duty of Services-Providers to Allow Entry) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-involvement-networks-duty-of-services-providers-to-allow-entry-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 2006 Act” means the National Health Service Act 2006;\n“the Act” means the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007;\n“care home” has the meaning assigned by section 3 of the Care Standards Act 2000;\n“care services” has the meaning given in section 221(6) of the Act;\n“excluded activities” means any activities provided in pursuance of—\n(a) the social services functions of a local authority so far as relating to persons aged under 18;\n(b) the functions, in so far as not covered by paragraph (a), conferred on or exercised by a local authority under the Children Act 1989, the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 or the Adoption and Children Act 2002; and\n(c) the functions, in so far as not covered by paragraph (a), continuing to be exercisable by a local authority under the Adoption Act 1976;\n“excluded premises” means—\n(a) parts of a care home which are not communal areas;\n(b) premises or parts of premises used as residential accommodation for employees of services-providers;\n(c) premises which are occupied by one or more persons as their home and which at least one of those persons occupies under a tenancy or a licence;\n“social services functions”, in relation to a local authority, has the same meaning as in the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c.41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 c.14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1989 c.41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1999 c.18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2002 c.38."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1976 c.36."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1970 c.42. Section 1A (meaning of “social services functions”) was inserted by section 102(3) of the Local Government Act 2000 (c.22)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110809311/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:16:53.402826+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."
}