2. In these Regulations—
“the 1997 Act” means the Police Act 1997(1);
“adult placement agency” means a voluntary organisation or undertaking carried on by an HSS Trust or Board or other person, the activities of which consist of or include:
arranging for placing a person in need, with an adult placement carer for the provision of care and support (which may include accommodation);
recruiting and training adult placement carers;
supporting and monitoring placements,
but does not include arrangements made by a person solely for the provision of care and support for his relative;
“adult placement carer” means a person who enters into an agreement with an adult placement agency to provide care or support for persons in need, which may include accommodation in the carers home;
“agency” means an adult placement agency carried on by a registered provider;
“agency premises” means premises where the management of the agency is carried on;
“approval panel” means the panel appointed by an adult placement agency for the purpose of approving applications to the agency from prospective carers;
“Board” means a Health and Social Services Board;
“carer agreement” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 16;
“complaints procedure” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 22;
“home”, where a person has more than one home, means the home where the person ordinarily resides;
“the Order” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;
“organisation” means a body corporate or any unincorporated association other than a partnership;
“placement” means an arrangement whereby an adult is provided with care or support by an adult placement carer;
“placement agreement” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 12;
“placing authority” means a Health and Social Services Trust or Health and Social Services Board or other person with responsibility for commissioning personal social services for service users;
“registered manager” means a person who is registered under Part III of the Order as the manager of the agency;
“registered person” means any person who is the registered provider or the registered manager in respect of the agency;
“registered provider” means a person who is registered under Part III of the Order as the person carrying on the agency, and references to carrying on an agency shall be construed accordingly;
“relative”, in relation to a service user means—
the service user’s spouse or civil partner;
any parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece of the service user, or of his spouse, or civil partner;
the spouse or civil partner of any relative within sub-paragraph (b) of this definition;
and for the purpose of determining any such relationship a service user’s step child shall be treated as his child, and references to “spouse” include a former spouse and a person who is living with the service user as husband or wife and references to “civil partner” include a former civil partner and a person who is living with the service user as if they were civil partners;
“representative” means, in relation to a service user, a person, other than the registered person or a person employed by the agency, who with the service user’s express or implied consent, takes an interest in the service user’s health and welfare;
“responsible individual” has the meaning given to it in regulation 7(2)(c)(i) of these Regulations;
“service user” in relation to an agency, means an adult who may be or is placed by the agency;
“service user’s plan” means the plan prepared in accordance with regulation 19;
“social worker” shall be construed in accordance with section 2 of the Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001(2);
“staff” in relation to an agency, means persons, other than adult placement carers, who work for the purposes of the agency;
“statement of purpose” means the written statement compiled in accordance with regulation 3;
“vulnerable adult” has the same meaning as in the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults (Northern Ireland) Order 2003(3);
“work” includes work of any kind, whether paid or unpaid, and whether under a contract or apprenticeship, under a contract for services, or otherwise than under a contract.