The Controlled Drugs (Supervision of Management and Use) (Wales) Regulations 2008

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

• “the 2000 Act” (“Deddf 2000”) means the Care Standards Act 2000(1);

• “the 2003 Act” (“Deddf 2003”) means the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003(2);

• “the 2006 Act” (“Deddf 2006.”) means the Health Act 2006(3);

• “accountable officer” (“swyddog atebol”) means a person nominated or appointed under regulation 4;

• “CSSIW” (“AGGCC”) means the Care and Social Services Inspectorate for Wales(4);

• “designated body” (“corff dynodedig”) is to be construed in accordance with regulation 3;

• “Health Solutions Wales” (“Atebion Iechyd Cymru”) is a division of the Velindre National Health Service Trust whose prescribing services branch provides data entry and pricing services relating to prescriptions dispensed in Wales;

• “HIW” (“AGIC”) means the Healthcare Inspectorate for Wales(5);

• “the health service” (“y gwasanaeth iechyd”) means the health service established in pursuance of the National Health Service Act 1946(6);

• “local authority” (“awdurdod lleol”) means a Welsh council referred to in section 1 of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970(7) (local authorities);

• “local intelligence network” (“rhwydwaith gwybodaeth leol”) is to be construed in accordance with regulation 18(2);

• “Local Health Board” (“Bwrdd Iechyd Lleol”) means a Local Health Board established by an Order under section 11(1) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006(8);

• “misuse of drugs legislation” (“deddfwriaeth am gamddefnyddio cyffuriau”) means the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971(9) and any subordinate legislation made under that Act;

• “NHS Business Services Authority” (“Awdurdod Gwasanaethau Busnes y GIG”) means the NHS Business Services Authority established by the NHS Business Services Authority (Awdurdod Gwasanaethau Busnes y GIG) (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2005(10);

• “NHS Trust” (“Ymddiriedolaeth GIG”) means a National Health Service Trust established by an Order under section 18(1) of the NHS (Wales) Act 2006;

• “NHS (Wales) Act 2006 (“Deddf GIG (Cymru) 2006”) means the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006;

• “registered dentist” (“deintydd cofrestredig”) means a person who is registered in the dentists register kept under section 14 of the Dentists Act 1984(11) (the dentists register and registrar);

• “registered pharmacist” (“fferyllydd cofrestredig”) means a person registered in the register of pharmacists maintained by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain;

• “retail pharmacy business” (“busnes manwerthu fferyllol”) has the meaning given in section 132 of the Medicines Act 1968(12) (registration of premises);

• “registered pharmacy” (“fferyllfa gofrestredig.”) means a retail pharmacy business in Wales that it for the time being entered in the register kept under section 75 of the Medicines Act 1968 (registration of premises);

• “regulatory body” (“corff rheoleiddiol”) means a body referred to in section 25(3) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (the Council for the Regulation of Health Care Professionals)(13);

• “relevant premises” (“mangre berthnasol”) is to be construed in accordance with regulation 20;

• “responsible body” (“corff cyfrifol”), unless the context otherwise requires, is to be construed in accordance with regulation 22;

• “Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust (“Ymddiriedolaeth GIG Gwasanaethau Ambiwlans Cymru”) means the Welsh Ambulance Services National Health Service Trust(14);

• “Welsh care home” (“cartref gofal yng Nghymru”) means a body that runs an establishment in Wales which is a care home for the purposes of the 2000 Act by virtue of section 3 of that Act (care homes);

• “Welsh independent hospital” (“ysbyty annibynnol yng Nghymru”) means a body that runs a hospital in Wales which is not a health service hospital (within the meaning given in section 206(1) of the NHS (Wales) Act 2006 (interpretation and construction)) but which is—

  (a)

  an establishment, the main purpose of which is to provide palliative care or medical or psychiatric treatment for illness or for mental disorder (that is, mental illness, arrested or incomplete development of mind, psychopathic disorder, or any other disorder or disability of mind); or

  (b)

  any other establishment in which treatment or nursing (or both) are provided for persons liable to be detained under the Mental Health Act 1983(15).

(2) Where, by virtue of these Regulations, a person or body is required to ensure a matter, the requirement is to be construed as a requirement to take all reasonable steps to ensure that matter.

(3) Where the reference is made in these Regulations to arrangements to provide services, the reference is to be construed as a reference to arrangements to provide services that involve, or may involve, the management or use of controlled drugs.

(4) For the purposes of these Regulations, “enactment” (“deddfiad”) includes, an enactment comprised in, or an instrument made under, a Measure of the National Assembly for Wales.

(1)

2000 c. 14.

(2)

2003 c. 43.

(3)

2006 c. 28.

(4)

The Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (“CSSIW”) is an operationally distinct division of the Department of Public Services and Performance within the Welsh Assembly Government.

(5)

The Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (“HIW”) is an operationally distinct division of the Department of Public Services and Performance within the Welsh Assembly Government.

(6)

1946 c. 81. This Act was repealed by the National Health Service Act 1977, which was in turn repealed in relation to Wales by the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 42) (“the NHS (Wales) Act 2006”).

(7)

1970 c. 42; amended by the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), section 195(3), and the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19), Schedule 10, paragraph 7.

(8)

2006 c. 42.

(9)

1971 c. 38.

(10)

S.I. 2005/3361

(11)

1984 c. 24.

(12)

1968 c. 67. There are amendments to section 132 which are not relevant to the definition of “retail pharmacy business”.

(13)

2002 c. 17.

(14)

Established by S.I. 1998/678.

(15)

1983 c. 20.