The Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Act 2007 (Prescription of Information) Order 2007

Prescription of information: “visual impairment information”

4.—(1) Information of a description given in paragraph (2) is prescribed in relation to a local authority and a Health and Social Services Board, as “visual impairment information” for the purposes of section 1(3) of the Act (which permits disclosure of visual impairment information by a local authority or a Health and Social Services Board to certain bodies in connection with switchover help functions).

(2) The information referred to in paragraph (1) is, in relation to an individual who is registered as blind or partially sighted—

(a) his name and any alias;

(b) his date of birth;

(c) his address;

(d) the name, any alias and address of a person appointed to act on his behalf;

(e) his preferred method for receiving communications from the local authority or, as the case may be, the Health and Social Services Board; and

(f) in a case where the individual has died, that fact and the date on which he died.

(3) For the purposes of this article a person is registered as blind or partially sighted if he—

(a) is registered as blind or partially sighted in a register maintained by or on behalf of a local authority in England or Wales under section 29 of the National Assistance Act 1948 (welfare services)(1);

(b) has been certified as blind or partially sighted in Scotland and in consequence is registered as blind or partially sighted in a register maintained by or on behalf of a local authority in Scotland; or

(c) has been certified as blind in Northern Ireland and in consequence is registered as blind in a register maintained by or on behalf of a Health and Social Services Board in Northern Ireland.

(1)

1948 c.29. Section 29 was repealed in relation to Scotland by the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, Sch. 9, Part 1. It was amended by the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1960, ss. 113(1) and 114 and Sch. 4; the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, Sch. 9, Part 1; the Local Government Act 1972, Sch. 23, para. 2; the Children Act 1989, Sch. 13, para. 11(2) and Sch. 14, para. 1; and the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006, Sch. 1, paras. 5 and 8. It was repealed in part by the Local Government Act 1972, Sch. 23 para. 2, and Sch 30 and by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983, Sch. 10, Part 1. The functions of the Minister of Health were transferred to the Secretary of State for Health by virtue of SI 1968/1699, and SI 1988/1843. Functions under this section, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by SI 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1.