Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Regulations may be cited as the Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) Regulations 2010 and shall come into force on 1st January 2011.

In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Medical Act 1983;

• “armed forces bodies” means the bodies referred to in paragraphs 12 to 14 of the Schedule to these Regulations;

• “hospital” has the same meaning as in section 275 of the National Health Service Act 2006^f1;

• “medical practitioner”, except in regulation 7(1)(b), means a registered medical practitioner^f2;

• “NHS body” means any of the bodies listed in paragraphs 1 to 6 and 15 to 17 of the Schedule to these Regulations;

• “non-departmental public body” means a body established by an Act of Parliament, an Act of the Scottish Parliament or by a statutory instrument made under any such Act to perform functions conferred on it under or by virtue of that Act or instrument or any other Act or instrument;

• “practising privileges” means the grant, by a person managing a hospital, to a medical practitioner of permission to practise as a medical practitioner in that hospital;

• “Scottish training governance body” means a body which exercises, on behalf of Scottish Ministers, functions conferred on Scottish Ministers that relate to education and training relating to the health service, including without prejudice to that generality, functions specified in section 47 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978^f3.