{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-etc-scotland-act-2008/section-124",
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  "legislation": "asp/2008/5",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-etc-scotland-act-2008",
  "path": "section/124",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "124",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1978 Act” means the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29);\n“the 1990 Act” means the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43);\n“common services agency” means the Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service;\n“contamination” has the meaning given by section 1(5);\n“dwellinghouse” has the meaning given by section 26(4);\n“exceptional detention order” means an order under section 45(1);\n“exclusion order” means an order under section 37(2);\n“health board” means a board constituted by an order under section 2(1)(a) of the 1978 Act;\n“health board competent person” means a person designated by a health board under section 3(1);\n“health care professional” has the meaning given by section 33(4);\n“health risk state” has the meaning given by section 14(7);\n“hospital” means—\n(a)any health service hospital (as defined in section 108(1) of the 1978 Act); and\n(b)any state hospital (being a hospital provided under section 102(1) of that Act);\n“hydrolysis” has the meaning given in section 107 of the Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016; and “hydrolysed” is to be construed accordingly,\n“infectious disease” has the meaning given by section 1(5);\n“local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39);\n“local authority competent person” means a person designated by a local authority under section 5(1);\n“NHS identifier” has the meaning given by section 13(8);\n“notifiable disease” has the meaning given by section 12(1);\n“notifiable organism” has the meaning given by section 12(1);\n“prescribed” means prescribed by the Scottish Ministers by regulations;\n“protecting public health” has the meaning given by section 1(2);\n“public health investigation” has the meaning given by section 21(1);\n“quarantine order” means an order under section 40(1);\n“restriction order” means an order under section 38(2);\n“short term detention order” means an order under section 42(1) or 43(1); and\n“special health board” means a board constituted by an order under section 2(1)(b) of the 1978 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 124 inserted (2.3.2026) by The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), regs. 1(2), 5(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 124 in force at 1.4.2009 by S.S.I. 2009/9, art. 2(b), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2008/5/section/124",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:45.653037+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."
}