The Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

Citation, commencement and interpretation N.I.

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 and shall come into operation on 1st October 2010.

(2) In these Regulations—

“the 2008 Act” means the Health and Social Care Act 2008;

“the Act” means the Medical Act 1983;

“clinical practice” includes medical practice or professional practice;

“the Department” means the Department of HealthF1 ...;

“Health and Social Care Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority” means the body established under the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation)(Northern Ireland) Order 2003(1);

“a Health and Social Care Trust” means a body established under Article 10 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991(2);

“hospital” has the same meaning as in Article 2(2) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(3);

“HSC body” means any of the bodies listed in section 1(5) of the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009(4);

“medical practitioner” except in regulation 5(1)(b) means a fully registered person within the meaning of the Act who holds a licence to practise under the Act;

“medical services” means services provided by a medical practitioner;

“non-departmental public body” means a body, other than a Northern Ireland department, established by a statutory provision to perform functions conferred on it under that statutory provision or any other statutory provision;

“Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service” means the special agency established by Order(5) under Article 3 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Special Agencies)(Northern Ireland)Order 1990(6);

“Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency” means the special agency established by Order(7) under Article 3 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Special Agencies)(Northern Ireland)Order 1990;

“nursing home” and “residential care home” have the same meanings as in the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation)(Northern Ireland) Order 2003;

“practising privileges” means the grant, by a person managing a hospital, to a medical practitioner of permission to practise as a medical practitioner in that hospital;

“Primary medical services performers list” means the list prepared in accordance with regulation 4 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004(8);

“the Regional Agency for Public Health and Social Well-Being” means the body established under section 12 of the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009;

“the Regional Business Services Organisation” means the body established under section 14 of the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009;

F2 ...

“a special health and social care agency” means a special agency established under Article 3 of the Health and Social Services (Special Agencies) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990.

(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland)1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly(9).

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (1.4.2022) by virtue of The Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/164), regs. 1(1), 3(a)

F2 Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (1.4.2022) by virtue of The Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/164), regs. 1(1), 3(b)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 1 in operation at 1.10.2010, see reg. 1(1)

(1)

S.I.2003/431 (N.I.9) renamed by section 1(2)(a) of the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 c.1 (N.I.)

(2)

S.I.1991/194 (N.I.1)

(3)

S.I.1972/1265 (N.I.14)

(4)

2009 c.1(N.I.)

(5)

S.R. 1994 No.175

(6)

S.I. 1990/247 (N.I.3)

(7)

S.R. 2004 No.62

(8)

S.R.2004 No.149 as amended by S.R.2008 No.434

(9)

1954 c.33(N.I.)