Section 21 InterpretationI1

In this Act—

• “Commissioner” means the Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland,

• “forensic medical examination” is to be construed in accordance with section 2(3) of the Forensic Medical Services (Victims of Sexual Offences) (Scotland) Act 2021,

• “health care” means—

  1. (a)

     services provided for or in connection with the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of illness, and

  2. (b)

     forensic medical examinations,

• “Parliamentary corporation” means the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body,

• “patient”—

  1. (a)

     is to be construed in accordance with the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, and

  2. (b)

     includes a person to whom a forensic medical examination is provided.