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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“the 1978 Act” means the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29);
“the 1990 Act” means the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43);
“common services agency” means the Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service;
“contamination” has the meaning given by section 1(5);
“dwellinghouse” has the meaning given by section 26(4);
“exceptional detention order” means an order under section 45(1);
“exclusion order” means an order under section 37(2);
“health board” means a board constituted by an order under section 2(1)(a) of the 1978 Act;
“health board competent person” means a person designated by a health board under section 3(1);
“health care professional” has the meaning given by section 33(4);
“health risk state” has the meaning given by section 14(7);
“hospital” means—
any health service hospital (as defined in section 108(1) of the 1978 Act); and
any state hospital (being a hospital provided under section 102(1) of that Act);
“infectious disease” has the meaning given by section 1(5);
“local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39);
“local authority competent person” means a person designated by a local authority under section 5(1);
“NHS identifier” has the meaning given by section 13(8);
“notifiable disease” has the meaning given by section 12(1);
“notifiable organism” has the meaning given by section 12(1);
“prescribed” means prescribed by the Scottish Ministers by regulations;
“protecting public health” has the meaning given by section 1(2);
“public health investigation” has the meaning given by section 21(1);
“quarantine order” means an order under section 40(1);
“restriction order” means an order under section 38(2);
“short term detention order” means an order under section 42(1) or 43(1); and
“special health board” means a board constituted by an order under section 2(1)(b) of the 1978 Act.