# The Patients' Forums (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 2003, Regulation 1: Citation, commencement, application and interpretation


(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Patients' Forums (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st September 2003.
(2) These Regulations apply to England only.
(3) In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002;
“the 1977 Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977;
“chairman” means, unless the context otherwise requires, the chairman of a Patients' Forum;
“Commission” means the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health;
“the health service” shall be construed in accordance with section 128(1) of the 1977 Act;
“health service body” means—
(a) a Strategic Health Authority, Special Health Authority, Primary Care Trust or NHS trust;
(b) a Health Board or Special Health Board constituted under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; or the Scottish Dental Practice Board, the Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service or an NHS trust respectively constituted under sections 4, 10 and 12A of that Act;
(c) the Dental Practice Board constituted under section 37(1) of the 1977 Act;
“member” in relation to a Patients' Forum includes the chairman except where the context otherwise requires;
“PCT Patients' Forum” has the meaning given in section 16 of the Act;
“primary care list” means—
(a) a list of persons undertaking to provide general medical services, general dental services, general ophthalmic services or, as the case may be, pharmaceutical services prepared pursuant to regulations made under sections 29, 36, 39, 42 or 43 of the 1977 Act;
(b) a list of persons approved for the purpose of assisting in the provision of any such services prepared pursuant to regulations made under section 43D of that Act;
(c) a services list referred to in section 28DA of that Act or section 8ZA of the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997; or
(d) a list corresponding to a services list prepared by virtue of regulations made under section 41 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2123/regulation/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/patients-forums-membership-and-procedure-regulations-2003/regulation-1
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