Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003

100 Power to require information

(1) The Assembly may at any time require any person specified in subsection (2) to provide it with any information, documents, records (including personal records) or other items—

(a) which relates or relate to the discharge by a local authority in Wales of its social services functions; and

(b) which the Assembly considers it necessary or expedient to have for the purpose of any of its functions under this Chapter.

(2) The persons referred to in subsection (1) are—

(a) the local authority;

(b) a person providing a Welsh local authority social service for the authority; or

(c) any NHS body.

(3) The power in subsection (1) to require the provision of information includes, in relation to records kept by means of a computer, power to require the provision of the records in legible form.

(4) Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with any requirement imposed by virtue of this section is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.