2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —
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“acute hospital service” and “cord blood banking service” have the meanings given by paragraph 2 of the First Schedule to the Act;
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“acute hospital service licensee” means a person who is licensed under the Act to provide an acute hospital service;
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“Clinical Governance Officer” means a Clinical Governance Officer appointed by a licensee under section 24(2) of the Act;
“cord blood” means the whole blood (including haematopoietic progenitor cells) remaining in placental and umbilical cord blood vessels after an umbilical cord has been clamped;
“incidental finding”, in relation to any examination or test of an infant donor or the mother of an infant donor, means any observation, result or other finding about the infant donor or mother (as the case may be) that is disclosed or discovered by or during the examination or test and has potential health or reproductive importance to the infant donor or mother (as the case may be), but is not related to the purpose or objective of the examination or test;
“infant donor” means an infant from whose placenta or umbilical cord any cord blood is obtained;
“licensee” means a person who holds a licence to provide a cord blood banking service;
“medical history”, in relation to an individual, includes —
(a)
information about whether the individual has previously engaged in behaviour that exposes the individual to a high risk of contracting or developing any communicable disease; and
(b)
information on whether the individual has a history of any genetic disease which may be inherited by a child of the individual;
“mother”, in relation to an infant donor, means the woman who carries the infant donor to delivery;
“personnel”, in relation to a licensee, means any individual employed or engaged by the licensee to assist the licensee in providing a cord blood banking service;
“recipient” means an individual to whom cord blood is administered for the purposes of treatment;
“transplant”, in relation to cord blood, means the administration of the cord blood to a recipient, whether the recipient is the infant donor of the cord blood, the mother of the infant donor or another individual;
“transplanting clinician”, in relation to an acute hospital service licensee, means a medical practitioner —
(a)
who is employed or engaged by the acute hospital service licensee to transplant cord blood to a recipient; or
(b)
who is permitted by the acute hospital service licensee to transplant cord blood to a recipient at any approved permanent premises of that licensee.