PART 3Regulation of health and adult social care services

CHAPTER 3Licensing

Enforcement

104Power to require documents and information

(1)

F1NHS England may require a person mentioned in subsection (2) to provide it with any information, documents, records or other items which it considers it necessary or expedient to have for the purposes of any of its regulatory functions.

(2)

The persons are—

(a)

an applicant for a licence under this Chapter,

(b)

a licence holder,

(c)

a person who has provided, or is providing, a health care service for the purposes of the NHS in accordance with an exemption by virtue of section 83 from the requirement to hold a licence under this Chapter,

(d)

a person who has provided, or is providing, a health care service for the purposes of the NHS in breach of that requirement,

F2(e)

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F3(f)

an integrated care board.

(3)

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

F4(4)

In this section “regulatory functions”, in relation to NHS England, has the meaning given by section 13SB(2) of the National Health Service Act 2006.