1. A general health services provider, that is to say—
(a)an individual undertaking to provide general medical services or general dental services under Part VI of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (NI 14);
(b)a person (whether an individual or a body) undertaking to provide general ophthalmic services or pharmaceutical services under Part VI of that Order; or
(c)an individual performing personal medical services or personal dental services in accordance with arrangements made under Article 15B of that Order (except as employees of, or otherwise on behalf of, a health and social services body or an independent provider).
2. An independent provider, that is to say a person (whether an individual or a body)—
(a)providing services of any kind under arrangements with a health and social services body or a general health services provider; and
(b)not being a health and social services body or a general health services provider.
3. Any person carrying on any of the following within the meaning of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (NI 2)—
(a)a children’s home or voluntary home;
(b)a residential care home, nursing home or private hospital in which children are accommodated.
4. A person providing day care to which Article 118(1)(b) of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (NI 2) applies.