Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (c. 3 (N.I.))U.K.
77(1)Section 7A of the Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (power to obtain information etc) is amended as follows.U.K.
(2)In subsection (3), after “provision” insert “ or the GDPR ”.
(3)For subsection (5) substitute—
“(5)In determining for the purposes of subsection (3) whether a disclosure is prohibited, it is to be assumed for the purposes of paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 2 to the Data Protection Act 2018 and paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 11 to that Act (exemptions from certain provisions of the data protection legislation: disclosures required by law) that the disclosure is required by this section.”
(4)After subsection (7) insert—
“(8)In this section, “the GDPR” and references to Schedule 2 to the Data Protection Act 2018 have the same meaning as in Parts 5 to 7 of that Act (see section 3(10), (11) and (14) of that Act).”