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The Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002

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1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st June 2002.

(2) In these Regulations—

  • “the Act” means the Health and Social Care Act 2001,

  • “public authority” has the same meaning as in section 3(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 M1;

  • F1...

  • [F2“research ethics committee” means—

    (a)

    a research ethics committee recognised or established by or on behalf of the Health Research Authority under the Care Act 2014, or

    (b)

    any other group of persons which assesses the ethics of research involving individuals and which is recognised for that purpose by or on behalf of the Welsh Ministers.]

(3) Any notice given under these Regulations shall be—

(a)in writing; or

(b)transmitted by electronic means in a legible form which is capable of being used for subsequent reference.

(4) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation which bears that number in these Regulations and any reference to a numbered paragraph in a regulation is a reference to the paragraph which bears that number in that regulation.

(5) These Regulations extend to England and Wales only.

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