The Local Authority (Public Health, Health and Wellbeing Boards and Health Scrutiny) Regulations 2013

Interpretation

8.—(1) In this Part—

“health professional” means a member of a profession regulated by a body mentioned in section 25(3) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002(1);

“height measure” means a stadiometer on which a person stands to be measured by means of a vertical rule and a sliding horizontal rod or paddle;

“the Information Centre” means the Health and Social Care Information Centre, established under section 252 of the 2012 Act;

“parent” includes any person who has parental responsibility for, or has care of, the child concerned and, in determining whether a person has care of the child, any absence of the child at a hospital or boarding school and any other temporary absence shall be disregarded;

“parental responsibility” has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Children Act 1989(2);

“personal information” means the information prescribed in regulation 9;

“process” and “processed” are to be interpreted in accordance with the meaning of “processing” in section 1(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998(3);

“registered dietitian” means a person who is registered in Part 4 of the register maintained by the Health Professions Council under article 5 of the Health Professions Order 2001(4);

“scales” means an electronic device on which a person stands to be weighed;

“weighing and measuring exercise” means the arrangements under which a local authority provides for the weighing and measuring of children in attendance at any school in the exercise of its functions under paragraph 7A(1) or (2) of Schedule 1 to the 2006 Act(5).

(1)

2002 c.17; section 25(3) was amended by paragraph 17 of Schedule 10 to the 2008 Act, by paragraph 56(b) of Schedule 17 to the 2012 Act, and by S.I. 2010/231.

(2)

1989 c.41.

(3)

1998 c.29. Section 1(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998 was amended by section 68(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c.36).

(4)

S.I. 2002/254.

(5)

Paragraph 7A of Schedule 1 to the 2006 Act is inserted by section 143(1) of the 2008 Act and is amended by section 17(2) and (7) of the 2012 Act.