Citation, commencement and interpretation
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1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Duty of Candour Procedure (Scotland) Regulations 2018 and come into force on 1st April 2018.
(2) (a) In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Health (Tobacco, Nicotine etc. and Care) (Scotland) Act 2016;
“incident” means the unintended or unexpected incident by virtue of which section 21(2) of the Act applies to a person; and
“procedure start date” is the date on which an opinion referred to in section 21(2)(b) of the Act is provided to the responsible person.
(b)A document required by virtue of these Regulations to be “written” includes an electronic communication, as defined in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000(1).
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