These regulations may be cited as the Patient and Client Council (Membership and Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2009.

In these regulations—

• “the Act” means the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009;

• “bankruptcy restrictions order” means an order made under Schedule 2A of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 19892F5or Schedule 4A of the Insolvency Act 1986;

• “charity trustee” means one of the persons having the general control and management of the administration of a charity;

• F6“debt relief restrictions order” means an order made under Schedule 2ZB to the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 or Schedule 4ZB to the Insolvency Act 1986;

• F1“former health service body” means a Strategic Health Authority, a Primary Care TrustF7, the Health and Social Care Information Centre or the Health Protection Agency;

• “health service body” means—

  1. a

     any of the following within the meaning of the National Health Service Act 20063—

     1. i

        F2...

     2. ii

        a Special Health Authority;

     3. iii

        F2...

     4. iv

        an NHS trust;

     5. iva

        F3a clinical commissioning group;

     6. ivb

        F9NHS England ;

     7. ivc

        the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence;

     8. ivd

        F8...

     9. v

        a Local Health Board;

  2. b

     any of the following within the meaning of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 19784—

     1. i

        a Health Board;

     2. ii

        a Special Health Board;

     3. iii

        the Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service;

     4. iv

        the Scottish Dental Practice Board;

  3. c

     the Wales Centre for Health established under section 2 of the Health (Wales) Act 20035;

  4. d

     F4...

  5. e

     the Care Quality Commission established under section 1 of the Health and Social Care Act 20087;

• “the Council” means the Patient and Client Council established under section 16 of the Act;

• “trade union” has the meaning assigned to it in Article 3 of the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 19928;

• “trustee for a charity” is a person not being a charity trustee, in whom legal title to the property of the charity is vested;

• “voluntary organisation” shall have the same meaning as in the Order of 1972.