PART 9AMENDMENTS TO SECONDARY LEGISLATION

The Access to Personal Files and Medical Reports (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1707 (N.I. 14))

Access to medical reports: “insurance purposes”416

1

Article 6 of the Access to Personal Files and Medical Reports (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (interpretation) is amended as follows.

2

In paragraph (1), for the definition of “insurance purposes” substitute—

  • “insurance purposes”, in the case of any individual who has entered into, or is seeking to enter into, a contract of insurance with an insurer, means the purposes of that insurer in relation to that individual;

  • “insurer” means—

    1. a

      a person who has permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to effect or carry out contracts of insurance; or

    2. b

      an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(d) of Schedule 3 to that Act, which has permission under paragraph 15 of that Schedule (as a result of qualifying for authorisation under paragraph 12 of that Schedule) to effect or carry out relevant contracts of insurance.

3

After that paragraph, insert—

1A

The definitions of “insurance purposes” and “insurer” in paragraph (1) must be read with—

a

section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

b

any relevant order under that section; and

c

Schedule 2 to that Act.