The Access to Personal Files (Social Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/1587
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and extent

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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Access to Personal Files (Social Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st August 1991.

(2) These Regulations apply to England and Wales.

Section 2 Amendment of the Access to Personal Files (Social Services) Regulations 1989

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(1) The Access to Personal Files (Social Services) Regulations 1989 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement, interpretation and extent) there shall be inserted at the end the words–

“National Health Service trust” has the meaning assigned by section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990

(3) In regulation 8(3)(a), (4) and (5) (exemption from access to personal health information from a health professional) after the words “health authority” on each occasion on which they appear there shall be inserted the words “or National Health Service trust” and at the end of regulation 8(3)(a) for the words “with that” there shall be substituted “with a”.

(4) In the Schedule to the Regulations (Health Professionals) in column 1 (Description) there shall be inserted–

(a) after the words “health authority” in the penultimate entry the words “or National Health Service trust”, and

(b) after the words “an authority” in the last entry the words “or National Health Service trust”.