Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 9 Ch. 2 heading substituted (1.2.2023) by The Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/98), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 17(2) (with reg. 3)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. 9 Ch. 2: power to amend conferred (1.7.2022) by 2021 c. 3, s 43(3) (as inserted by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 101(5)(b), 186(6); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30))
(1)A request under section 255 is a confidential collection request if it is a request for [F2NHS England] to establish and operate a system for the collection of information which is in a form which—
(a)identifies any individual to whom the information relates who is not an individual who provides health care or adult social care, or
(b)enables the identity of such an individual to be ascertained.
(2)A person may make a confidential collection request under section 255 only if the request—
(a)is a mandatory request,
(b)relates to information which the person making the request (“R”) may require to be disclosed to R or to [F2NHS England] by the person holding it, or
(c)relates to information which may otherwise be lawfully disclosed to [F2NHS England] or to R by the person holding it.
Textual Amendments
F2Words in s. 256 substituted (1.2.2023) by The Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/98), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 17(8) (with reg. 3)
Commencement Information
I1S. 256 in force at 1.4.2013 by S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)