{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthcare-improvement-scotland-applications-and-registration-regulations-2011/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthcare-improvement-scotland-applications-and-registration-regulations-2011/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2011/35",
  "legislation_title": "The Healthcare Improvement Scotland (Applications and Registration) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthcare-improvement-scotland-applications-and-registration-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;\n“HIS” means Healthcare Improvement Scotland;\n“the applicant” means the person making an application for registration of an independent health care service under the Act;\n“address” means a postal address and, where available, an electronic mail address but an electronic mail address may not be substituted for a postal address;\n“health body” means a Health Board or Special Health Board;\n“manager” means the person who is to manage the independent health care service;\n“provider” in relation to an independent health care service means the person registered to provide that service; and\n“service user” in relation to an independent health care service means any person to whom that service is provided.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 10F of the Act defines an independent health care service."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/35/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:51:44.046235+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."
}