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.