Interpretation2

• “the 1972 Order” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (NI 14);

• “the 2003 Order” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (NI 9);

• F4 “adult” means a person who has attained the age of 18;

• “the adults' barred list” must be construed in accordance with Article 6(1)(b);

• “barred list” means the children's barred list or the adults' barred list;

• “child” means a person who has not attained the age of 18;

• “the Children Order” means the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (NI 2);

• “the children's barred list” must be construed in accordance with Article 6(1)(a);

• “employment agency” and “employment business” must be construed in accordance with Part II of the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (NI 20);

• F1“HSC body” means any of the following F11(see the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 for the bodies mentioned in paragraphs (b) to (e)) —

  1. a

     F12the Department of Health;

  2. b

     the Regional Agency for Public Health and Social Well-being;

  3. c

     a HSC trust;

  4. d

     a special agency;

  5. e

     the Patient and Client Council;

• “ F10DBS ” must be construed in accordance with Article 5;

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• “F2social care” has the same meaning as in the 1972 Order;

• “personnel supplier” means—

  1. a

     a person carrying on an employment agency or an employment business, or

  2. b

     an educational institution which supplies to another person a student who is following a course at the institution, for the purpose of enabling the student to obtain experience of engaging in regulated F7... activity;

• “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State;

• F3“RQIA” means the Health and Social Care Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority;

• “statutory provision” must be construed in accordance with section 1(f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (c,33);

• “supervisory authority” must be construed in accordance with Article 47(7);

• “vulnerable adult” F5means any adult to whom an activity which is a regulated activity relating to vulnerable adults by virtue of any paragraph of paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 2 is provided .