SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15 Minor and consequential amendments

Access to Health Records (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (1993/1250 (N.I. 4))

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For paragraphs (1) and (2) of Article 4 of the Access to Health Records (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 there is substituted—

1

In this Order “health professional” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 1998.

18

In Article 5(4) of that Order (cases where fee may be required) in sub-paragraph (a), for “the maximum prescribed under section 21 of the Data Protection Act 1984” there is substituted “ such maximum as may be prescribed for the purposes of this Article by regulations under section 7 of the Data Protection Act 1998 ”.

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In Article 7 of that Order (cases where right of access may be partially excluded) for the words from the beginning to “record” in the first place where it occurs there is substituted “ Access shall not be given under Article 5(2) to any part of a health record ”.