{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-commissioners-act-1993/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-commissioners-act-1993/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/46",
  "legislation_title": "Health Service Commissioners Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-commissioners-act-1993",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“action” includes failure to act, and related expressions shall be construed accordingly;\n“allotted sum” shall be construed in accordance with section 15 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 or, in Scotland, section 87B of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;\n“the Assembly” means the National Assembly for Wales;\n“the Court” means, in relation to England and Wales, the High Court, ...and in relation to Northern Ireland, the High Court in Northern Ireland;\n“direct payment services” means services in respect of which direct payments have been made under section 12A(1), or under regulations under section 12A(4), of the National Health Service Act 2006;\n“family health services” has the meaning given by section 2A;\n“family health service provider” has the meaning given by section 2A;\n...\n“functions” includes powers and duties;\n“health service body” has the meaning given by section 2;\n“independent provider” has the meaning given by section 2B;\n“local authority” means—\n(a)in relation to England . . ., a county, district or London borough council or the Common Council of the City of London,\n(aa)in relation to Wales, a county council or county borough council,\n(b)in relation to Scotland, a regional, district or islands council;\n“Local Commissioner” means a Local Commissioner under Part 3 of the Local Government Act 1974;\n“officer” includes employee...;\n“Parliamentary Commissioner” means Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration;\n“patient” includes an expectant or nursing mother and a lying-in woman; . . .\n“person aggrieved” means the person who claims or is alleged to have sustained such injustice or hardship as is mentioned in section 3(1) , (1A) or (1C).\n“recognised fund-holding practice” shall be construed in accordance with section 14 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 or, in Scotland, section 87A of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 inserted (1.4.1996) by 1996 c. 5, s. 3, Sch. 1 para. 6(2); S.I. 1996/970, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 repealed (1.10.1999 for E.S., 1.4.2000 for W.) by 1999 c. 8, s. 65, Sch. 4 para. 85(4), Sch. 5; S.I. 1999/2540, art. 2, Sch. 1; S.I. 1999/90, art. 2, Sch. 2; S.I. 2000/1026, art. 2(1), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 inserted (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 38, s. 112, Sch. 10 para. 15(2) (with ss. 139(2), 143(2)); S.I. 1999/782, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 omitted (14.7.2004) by virtue of The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Act 2002 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1823), arts. 1, 17(10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 inserted (19.1.2010) by Health Act 2009 (c. 21), ss. 12(7), 40(1); S.I. 2010/30, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 inserted (1.4.1996) by 1996 c. 5, s. 3, Sch. 1 para. 6(3); S.I. 1996/970, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 repealed (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 52(2), Sch. 7 (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 inserted (1.4.1996) by 1996 c. 5, s. 3, Sch. 1 para. 6(4); S.I. 1996/970, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6)(8), Sch. 16 para. 108, Sch. 18 (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 para. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6), Sch. 16 para. 108 (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 para. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 inserted (1.8.2007) by The Regulatory Reform (Collaboration etc. between Ombudsmen) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1889), arts. 1(1), 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 repealed (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 52(3), Sch. 7 (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Word in s. 19 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1996 c. 5, ss. 3, 13, Sch. 1 para. 6(5), Sch. 2; S.I. 1996/970, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 inserted (1.4.1996) by 1996 c. 5, s. 3, Sch. 1 para. 6(6); S.I. 1996/970, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 inserted (1.4.1996) by 1996 c. 5, s. 3, Sch. 1 para. 6(7); S.I. 1996/970, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 repealed (1.10.1999 for E.S., 1.4.2000 for W.) by 1999 c. 8, s. 65, Sch. 4 para. 85(4), Sch. 5; S.I. 1999/2540, art. 2, Sch. 1; S.I. 1999/90, art. 2, Sch. 2; S.I. 2000/1026, art. 2(1), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1990 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1978 c. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/46/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:38.799510+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."
}