The Medical Examiners (Wales) Regulations 2024

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Coroners and Justice Act 2009;

“appointing body” (“corff penodi”), in relation to a medical examiner, means the Welsh NHS body which appointed the medical examiner under section 18B(1) of the Act(1);

“attending practitioner” (“ymarferydd a fu’n gweini”) has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the section 20(1) Regulations;

“medical examiner” (“archwilydd meddygol”) has the meaning given in section 48(1) of the Act;

“National Medical Examiner” (“Archwilydd Meddygol Cenedlaethol”) means the person appointed under section 21(1) of the Act;

“other relevant medical practitioner” (“ymarferydd meddygol perthnasol arall”) means a registered medical practitioner who, in relation to a death, is not a relevant attending practitioner, but has—

(a)

made a notification or referral to a senior coroner under any enactment,

(b)

sought advice from a medical examiner, or

(c)

sought to fulfil any function under section 20(1) Regulations;

“registered medical practitioner” (“ymarferydd meddygol cofrestredig”) means a fully registered person within the meaning of the Medical Act 1983(2) who holds a licence to practise under that Act;

“relevant attending practitioner” (“ymarferydd perthnasol a fu’n gweini”) has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the section 20(1) Regulations;

“relevant function” (“swyddogaeth berthnasol”) means a function(3) conferred on medical examiners by regulation 7 of these Regulations or section 20(1) Regulations;

“section 20(1) Regulations” (“Rheoliadau adran 20(1)”) means the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death Regulations 2024(4);

“senior coroner” (“uwch-grwner”) has the meaning given in section 48(1) of the Act;

“Welsh NHS body” (“corff GIG Cymru”) has the meaning given in section 18B(3) of the Act.

(1)

Section 18B was inserted by section 169(1) of the Health and Care Act 2022.

(2)

1983 c. 54.

(3)

For the meaning of “function”, see section 48(1) of the Act.

(4)

S.I. 2024/492.