PART 9Health and adult social care services: information

CHAPTER 2The Health and Social Care Information Centre

Functions: information systems

257Requests under section 255: supplementary

1

The Information Centre must publish procedures for—

a

the making and consideration of requests under section 255, and

b

the reconsideration by the Centre of a decision not to comply with such a request.

2

The procedure mentioned in subsection (1)(b) must provide for the person who made the request to have an opportunity to make representations to the Information Centre within a reasonable period for the purposes of the reconsideration.

3

The Information Centre may charge a person a reasonable fee in respect of the cost of complying with a request made by that person under section 255.

4

Before making a request under section 255 a person must consult the Information Centre.

5

The Information Centre must publish details of—

a

any mandatory request, and

b

any other request under section 255 with which the Centre is obliged, or decides, to comply.