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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-health-boards-constitution-membership-and-procedures-wales-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2003/149",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Health Boards (Constitution, Membership and Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-health-boards-constitution-membership-and-procedures-wales-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "The following words and phrases shall bear the following meanings —\n“1977 Act” (“Deddf 1977”) means the National Health Service Act 1977;\n“Assembly” (“Cynulliad”) means the National Assembly for Wales;\n“Board” (“Bwrdd”) means a Local Health Board;\n“Board’s area” (“ardal y Bwrdd”) (means the area for which a Board is established as set out in the Local Health Boards (Establishment) (Wales) Order 2003 , as such area may be varied from time to time;\n“carer” (“gofalwr”) means a person aged 16 or over who provides or has provided a substantial amount of care on a regular basis for another person, other than by virtue of a contract of employment or other contract with any person, or as a volunteer for a voluntary organisation;\n“Community Health Council” (“Cyngor Iechyd Cymuned”) means a Community Health Council established in Wales pursuant to section 20 of the National Health Service Act 1977;\n“first members” (“aelodau cyntaf”) means those persons who are the first to be appointed as members of a Board immediately following its establishment;\n“general medical practitioner” (“ymarferydd meddygol cyffredinol”) means a medical practitioner who provides general medical services under Part II of the 1977 Act or personal medical services in connection with a pilot scheme under the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997;\n“health care profession” (“proffesiwn gofal iechyd”) shall have the meaning given in section 25(12) of the National Health Service Reform and Healthcare Professions Act 2002;\n“health service body” (“corff gwasanaeth iechyd”) means a Health Authority, Special Health Authority, Strategic Health Authority, Local Health Board, NHS Trust or Primary Care Trust;\n“local authority” (“awdurdod lleol”) means a county or county borough council in Wales;\n“local authority member” (“aelod awdurdod lleol”) means a member of a Board who is nominated by the local authority for that Board’s area;\n“member” (“aelod”) includes the chair and vice-chair, officer and non-officer members, associate members and co-opted members of a Board;\n“officer member” (“aelod sy'n swyddog”) means a member who is the holder of any office set out in regulation 3(3);\n“non-officer member” (“aelod nad yw'n swyddog”) means a member of a Board who does not hold any office set out in regulation 3(3); and\n“shadow member” (“aelod cysgodol”) means a person identified to be one of the first members of a Board as at the date of the coming into force of these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003 No.148. W. 18."
    },
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      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1997 c. 46."
    }
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      "affecting_title": "The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) (No. 2) Order 2004"
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    {
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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