The Access to Personal Files (Housing) Regulations 1989

Information as to an individual’s health

6.—(1) This regulation applies where the relevant information held relates to the physical or mental health of an individual and the authority believes it was provided by or on behalf of a health professional.

(2) Where this regulation applies the authority shall, within 14 days of its duties arising under regulation 3(1), inform in writing the body which appears to it to be the relevant health authority, or, if there is no such body, the person who appears to it to be the appropriate health professional that this regulation applies in relation to relevant information and that it or he should give the view of an appropriate health professional as to whether regulation 4(1)(b)(i) applies in whole or part to that information.

(3) The relevant health authority or appropriate health professional shall notify the authority of the view of the appropriate health professional within the 40 day period referred to in regulation 3(1).

(4) In this regulation “relevant health authority” means the health authority which employed, or retained the services of, the health professional whom the authority believes to have supplied the information to the authority in the course of his employment.