Regulation 2

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:—

• “the Act” means the Mental Health Act 1959;

• “hospital” has the meaning assigned to it by section 147(1) of the Act and includes a mental nursing home;

• “mental nursing home” means a home in respect of which the particulars of registration are, for the time being, entered or treated as entered in the separate part of the register kept for the purposes of section 15(1) of the Act;

• “principal regulations” means the Mental Health (Hospital and Guardianship) Regulations 1960^f1 .

The Interpretation Act 1889. applies to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.