# The Local Involvement Networks (Duty of Services-Providers to Allow Entry) Regulations 2008, Regulation 2: Interpretation


In these Regulations—
“the 2006 Act” means the National Health Service Act 2006;
“the Act” means the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007;
“care home” has the meaning assigned by section 3 of the Care Standards Act 2000;
“care services” has the meaning given in section 221(6) of the Act;
“excluded activities” means any activities provided in pursuance of—
(a) the social services functions of a local authority so far as relating to persons aged under 18;
(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
(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;
“excluded premises” means—
(a) parts of a care home which are not communal areas;
(b) premises or parts of premises used as residential accommodation for employees of services-providers;
(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;
“social services functions”, in relation to a local authority, has the same meaning as in the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110809311/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-involvement-networks-duty-of-services-providers-to-allow-entry-regulations-2008/regulation-2
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