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

68 Power to require documents and information etc E+W

(1) The CHAI 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—

(i) the provision of health care by or for an NHS body, or

(ii) the discharge of any of the functions of an NHS body; and

(b) which the CHAI considers it necessary or expedient to have for the purposes of this Chapter.

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

(a) the NHS body;

(b) any person providing health care for, or exercising functions of, the NHS body;

(c) a local authority.

(3) The power in subsection (1) to require the provision of records 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.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 68 in force at 1.4.2004 by S.I. 2004/759, art. 3(1)