National Health Service Act 1977

120 Interpretation of Part V

(1) In this Part of this Act and in Schedule 13 to this Act—

• " action " includes failure to act, and other expressions connoting action shall be construed accordingly ;

• " Commissioner " means the Health Service Commissioner for England or the Health Service Commissioner for Wales, and " Commissioners" means both those persons;

• " person aggrieved " means the person who claims or is alleged to have sustained such injustice or hardship as is mentioned in section 115 above ; and

• " relevant body " has the meaning given by section 109 above, and (except where the context otherwise requires) includes a reference to an officer of the body.

(2) Nothing in this Part of this Act authorises or requires a Commissioner to question the merits of a decision taken without maladministration by a relevant body in the exercise of a discretion vested in that body.