Health Act 1999 (c. 8)

Part I U.K. The National Health Service

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. I (ss. 1-45 except 20(1), 22, 33-38): transfer of functions (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1 (as inserted (30.6.1999) by 1999 c. 8, ss. 66(4)(5)(c), 67(4))

Pt. I applied to Isles of Scilly (with modifications) (14.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/448, art. 2

Miscellaneous U.K.

41 High security psychiatric services. E+W

F1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 41 repealed (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), ss. 6, 8(2), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 Pt. 1)

42 Provision of information by Registrar General. E+W

F2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F2 S. 42 repealed (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), ss. 6, 8(2), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 Pt. 1)

43 Health Service Commissioners. U.K.

(1) Section 15 of the M1 Health Service Commissioners Act 1993 (confidentiality of information) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1), at the beginning of paragraph (e) there is inserted “ where the information is to the effect that any person is likely to constitute a threat to the health or safety of patients ”.

(3) Subsection (1A) is omitted.

(4) In subsection (1B)—

(a) for “such a case” there is substituted “ a case within subsection (1)(e) ”,

(b) the words following “patients” are omitted.

(5) In subsection (1C), for paragraphs (a) and (b) there is substituted—

“(a) where he knows the identity of the person mentioned in subsection (1)(e), inform that person that he has disclosed the information and of the identity of any person to whom he has disclosed it, and

(b) inform the person from whom the information was obtained that he has disclosed it”.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 43 wholly in force at 1.3.2000; s. 43 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 67(1); s. 43 in force for E.W. at 1.10.1999 by S.I. 1999/2540, art. 2(1)(b); s. 43 in force for S. at 1.3.2000 by S.S.I. 2000/38, art. 2

Marginal Citations

M1 1993 c.46.