9Visiting and examination of patients
(1)Section 37 of the principal Act (visiting and examination of patients) shall be amended as follows.
(2)After subsection (1) there shall be inserted—
“(1A)Any medical practitioner authorised for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section to visit and examine a patient may require the production of and inspect any records relating to the detention or treatment of the patient in any hospital.”
(3)In subsection (2) (examination of patients in mental nursing homes) for the words "a registration authority" there shall be substituted the words " the Secretary of State " and for the words " that authority " there shall be substituted the words " the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, that authority ".
(4)In subsection (3) (production and inspection of medical records of patients in mental nursing homes) for the words " medical records" there shall be substituted the word " records ".