These Regulations prescribe the information that can be shared by the Registrar General for Scotland (“the Registrar General”) in operating the central register for health and local authority purposes (“the register”) under section 57 of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (“the Act”).

The register is the National Health Service Central Register for Scotland. It is held by the Registrar General for Scotland for the National Health Service in Scotland (and was formerly held by the Registrar General principally under section 1(3) of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1965 (c. 49)).

An entry in the register may contain basic individual identity and further details as specified in section 57(3) of the Act and column 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations. Entry details may be drawn from the persons and places specified in section 57(2) to the Act and (for three classes of information) as specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations. Accordingly, the Regulations prescribe additional information held by persons or contained in places which may be used to create and maintain, and which may be contained in an entry in, the register (regulation 3 and Schedule 1). They also prescribe the information that may be provided from the register, and to whom (regulation 4 and Schedule 2).

A full Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no cost on business.