PART 9Health and adult social care services: information
C1CHAPTER 2The Health and Social Care Information Centre
Functions: information systems
I1256C1Requests for collection under section 255: confidential information
1
A request under section 255 is a confidential collection request if it is a request for the Information Centre to establish and operate a system for the collection of information which is in a form which—
a
identifies any individual to whom the information relates who is not an individual who provides health care or adult social care, or
b
enables the identity of such an individual to be ascertained.
2
A person may make a confidential collection request under section 255 only if the request—
a
is a mandatory request,
b
relates to information which the person making the request (“R”) may require to be disclosed to R or to the Information Centre by the person holding it, or
c
relates to information which may otherwise be lawfully disclosed to the Information Centre or to R by the person holding it.
Pt. 9 Ch. 2: power to amend conferred (1.7.2022) by 2021 c. 3, s 43(3) (as inserted by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 101(5)(b), 186(6); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30))