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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-care-scotland-act-2001-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-order-2002/article-1",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2002/162",
  "legislation_title": "The Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-care-scotland-act-2001-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-order-2002",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2002.\n(2) In this Order–\n“the Act” means the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001;\n“the 1938 Act” means the Nursing Homes Registration (Scotland) Act 1938;\n“the 1951 Act” means the Nurses (Scotland) Act 1951;\n“the 1968 Act” means the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968;\n“the 1989 Act” means the Children Act 1989;\n“the 1996 regulations” means the Secure Accommodation (Scotland) Regulations 1996;\n“agency for the supply of nurses” has the meaning which it had in the 1951 Act;\n“child minder” has the meaning which it had in the 1989 Act;\n“commencement date” means 1st April 2002;\n“day care for children” has the meaning which it had in the 1989 Act;\n“establishment” means a residential or other establishment within the meaning of the 1968 Act;\n“Health Board” means a Health Board constituted by order under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; and\n“nursing home” has the meaning which it had in the 1938 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1938 c. 73."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1951 c. 55."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1968 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/3255."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1978 c. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/162/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:41:53.191871+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."
}