{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-health-boards-functions-wales-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-health-boards-functions-wales-regulations-2003/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2003/150",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Health Boards (Functions) (Wales) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-health-boards-functions-wales-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —\n“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the National Health Service Act 1977;\n“LHB order” (“gorchymyn BILl”) shall be construed in accordance with section 16BA(2) of the Act;\n“the relevant date” (“y dyddiad perthnasol”) means—\n(a) 1st April 2003; or\n(b) the date on which the Local Health Board in question was established,\nwhichever is the latest;\n“relevant Health Authority” (“Awdurdod Iechyd perthnasol”) means the Health Authority previously in existence for the area for which the Local Health Board is established.\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, the persons for whom a Local Health Board is responsible in any year are the persons usually resident in the area for which the Local Health Board is established.\n(3) Subject to any direction which the National Assembly may give as to any particular case or classes of case, if there is doubt as to where a person is usually resident for the purposes of paragraph (2) —\n(a) the person shall be treated as usually resident at the address given by him or her to the person or body providing him or her with services, as being that at which the person usually resides;\n(b) where the person gives no such address, he or she shall be treated as usually resident at the address which he or she gives to the person or body providing him or her with services, as being the person’s most recent address;\n(c) where the person’s usual address cannot be determined under sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) above, he or she shall be treated as usually resident in the area in which the person is present.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2007/315",
      "affecting_title": "Local Health Boards (Functions) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2007/315",
      "affecting_title": "Local Health Boards (Functions) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/150/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:12:13.982787+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."
}