Interpretation2

• F2“Adoption Order” means the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987;

• F3“appropriate children's home” has the meaning given in Article 27(10);

• “Article 8 order” has the meaning given in Article 8(2);

• “authority”, where the reference is to a body, means, except in Article 165 F32, an HSC trust that is exercising social care and children functions within the meaning of Article 10A of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 ;

• “authority foster parent” has the meaning given in Article 27(3) (accommodation and maintenance of children looked after by an authority);

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• “care order” has the meaning given in Article 49(1) and also includes any order which by or under any statutory provision has the effect of, or is deemed to be, a care order for the purposes of this Order;

• F3“Care Tribunal” means the tribunal established by Article 44 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Irelamd) Order 2003;

• “child”, except in Parts X, XI and XII (fostering, child minding and employment) and subject to paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 1, means a person under the age of 18;

• “child assessment order” has the meaning given in Article 62(2) (child assessment orders);

• “child minder” has the meaning given in Article 119;

• F4“child of the family”, in relation to parties to a marriage, or to two people who are civil partners of each other, means—

  1. a

     a child of both of them, and

  2. b

     any other child, other than a child placed with them as foster parents by an authority or voluntary organisation, who has been treated by both of them as a child of their family.

• “children's home” has the meaningF3 assigned to it by Article 9 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;

• F5“compulsory school age” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 46 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986;

• “contact order” has the meaning given in Article 8(1);

• “the court” has the meaning given in Article 164(1) and (2);

• “day care” has the same meaning as in Article 19;

• “the Department” means the Department of Health and Social Services;

• “development” means physical, intellectual, emotional, social or behavioural development;

• F7“ F6disabled person's tax credit” meansF6 disabled person's tax credit under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;

• “disabled” means blind, deaf or dumb or suffering from mental disorder of any kind or substantially and permanently handicapped by illness, injury or congenital deformity or such other disability as may be prescribed;

• F8“dwelling-house” includes—

  1. a

     any building or part of a building which is occupied as a dwelling;

  2. b

     any caravan, houseboat or structure which is occupied as a dwelling,

  and any yard, garden, garage or outhouse belonging to it and occupied with it;

• “education supervision order” has the meaning given in Article 49(1);

• “emergency protection order” means an order under Article 63;

• “family assistance order” means an order under Article 16;

• F9“ F6working families' tax credit” meansF6 working families' tax credit under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;

• “family proceedings” has the meaning given in Article 8(3);

• “family proceedings court” has the meaning given in Article 164(4);

• F10“family proceedings rules” means family proceedings rules made under Article 12 of the Family Law (Northern Ireland) Order 1993;

• “foster a child privately” has the meaning given in Article 106(1);

• “guardian of a child” means a guardian (other than a guardian of the fortune or estate of a child) appointed in accordance with the provisions of Article 159 or 160;

• “harm” means ill-treatment or the impairment of health or development and the question of whether harm is significant shall be determined in accordance with Article 50(3);

• “health” means physical or mental health;

• F12“ F11Health and Social Care trust” means a F11Health and Social Care trust established under the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;

• F13“homeless persons” shall be construed in accordance with Part II of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1988;

• F14“hospital” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 2(2) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;

• “ill-treatment” includes sexual abuse and forms of ill-treatment which are not physical;

• F15“income-based jobseeker's allowance” has the same meaning as in the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;

• F16“income-related employment and support allowance” means an income-related allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (employment and support allowance);

• “income support” means income support under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;

• F17“managers” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 2(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986;

• F18“medical practitioner” means a fully registered person within the meaning of the Medical Act 1983;

• “nursing home” has the meaning assigned to it byF3 Article 11 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;

• “parental responsibility” has the meaning given in Article 6;

• “parental responsibility agreement” has the meaning given in F19Article 7(1ZB);

• “ F20social care” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 2(2) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;

• “police officer” means a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary or of the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve;

• “prescribed”, except in Parts II, XII, XV and XVI and Article 176 and in relation to rules of court, means prescribed by regulations made by the Department under this Order;

• F3“private children's home” means a children's home—

  1. a

     in respect of which a person is registered under Part III of the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003; and

  2. b

     which is not a home provided under Part VII or a voluntary home;

• F21“private hospital” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 90(2) of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986;

• “privately fostered child” has the meaning given in Article 106(1);

• “probation order” has the meaning assigned to it byF22 Article 10 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;

• “prohibited steps order” has the meaning given in Article 8(1);

• “protected child” means a child who is a protected child for the purposes of Part IV of the Adoption Order;

• “public body” means a body established by or under any statutory provision;

• Definition rep. by 2003 NI 9

• F30F3“F29RQIA” means the Health and Social Care Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority ;

• “relative”, in relation to a child, means a grandparent, brother, sister, uncle or aunt (whether of the full blood or half blood orF4 by marriage or civil partnership), or step-parent;

• “residence order” has the meaning given in Article 8(1);

• “residential care home” has the meaning assigned to it byF3 Article 10 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;;

• “rules of court” includes family proceedings rules, county court rules and magistrates' courts rules (as well as rules of court as defined in section 21(4) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954);

• F23“school” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 2(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986;

• “service”, in relation to any provision made under Part IV, includes any facility;

• “special educational needs” has the meaning assigned to it byF24 Article 3 of the Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;

• F26“special agency” means a special health and F25social care agency established under the Health and Personal Social Services (Special Agencies) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990;

• “specific issue order” has the meaning given in Article 8(1);

• “statutory provision” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954;

• “supervision order” has the meaning given in Article 49(1);

• “supervised child” and “supervisor”, in relation to a supervision order or an education supervision order, mean respectively the child who is (or is to be) under supervision and the person under whose supervision he is (or is to be) by virtue of the order;

• Definition rep. by 1998 NI 9

• “upbringing”, in relation to any child, includes the care of the child but not his maintenance;

• “voluntary home” has the meaning given in Article 74(1);

• “voluntary organisation” has the meaning given in Article 74(1).