{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-profession-responsible-officers-regulations-2010/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2841",
  "legislation_title": "The Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-profession-responsible-officers-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) Regulations 2010 and shall come into force on 1st January 2011.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Medical Act 1983;\n“the 2006 Act” means the National Health Service Act 2006;\n“armed forces bodies” means the bodies referred to in paragraphs 12 to 14 of the Schedule to these Regulations;\n...\n“hospital” has the same meaning as in section 275 of the National Health Service Act 2006;\n“integrated care provider” means a person, other than a person specified in regulation 1A(3), who is party to an integrated care provider contract;\n“integrated care provider contract” has the meaning given in regulation 1A;\n“medical practitioner”, except in regulation 7(1)(b), means a registered medical practitioner;\n“NHS body” means any of the bodies listed in paragraphs 1 to 6, 15 to 17 and 25C of the Schedule to these Regulations;\n“NHS England” means the body corporate established under section 1H of the 2006 Act;\n“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;\n“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;\n“primary medical services” has the meaning given in regulation 1A(7);\n“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;\n“sufficient number of responsible officers” means the number of responsible officers required to ensure that each responsible officer appointed under regulation 5(2) has the capacity to carryout their responsibilities in regulations 11 and 13.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (E.) (1.4.2019) by The Amendments Relating to the Provision of Integrated Care Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/248), regs. 1(1), 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (6.11.2023) by virtue of The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), regs. 1(1), 46(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/391), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), regs. 1(1), 46(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/391), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 1.1.2011, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of “registered medical practitioner” in Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30) was substituted by S.I. 2002/3135, Schedule 1, paragraph 10 with effect from 16th November 2009."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1978 c. 29. NHS Education for Scotland is currently the sole body in this class."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2841/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:24:12.611008+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."
}