Part 4 S General

22 InterpretationS

(1)In this Act—

• “the 1948 Act” means the National Assistance Act 1948 (c.29);

• “the 1968 Act” means the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c.49);

• “the 1978 Act” means the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c.29);

• “the 1984 Act” means the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 (c.36);

• “the 1995 Act” means the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (c.36);

• “local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c.39);

• “NHS body” means—

  (a)

  a Health Board, constituted by order made under section 2(1)(a) of the 1978 Act;

  (b)

  a Special Health Board, constituted by order made under section 2(1)(b) of that Act;

  (c)

  a National Health Service trust, established by order made under section 12A(1) of that Act; or

  (d)

  the Common Services Agency, constituted by section 10(1) of that Act;

• “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Scottish Ministers; and

• “social care” means, subject to subsection (2) below, a service provided—

  (a)

  under the 1968 Act; or

  (b)

  under section 7 (arrangements in relation to persons who are or have been suffering from mental disorder) or 8 (provision of after-care services for such persons) of the 1984 Act,

  to an individual by a local authority or a service the provision of which to an individual, under the 1968 Act or either of those sections, is secured by a local authority.

(2)In this Act, “social care” does not include a service which (or so much of a service as) consists of the provision of accommodation; but in the definition of the expression in subsection (1) above, the references to a service being provided are to the provision of any other form of assistance (including, without prejudice to that generality, the provision of advice, guidance or a material thing).