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Care Reform (Scotland) Act 2025
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4Persons to whom standards may applyS
(1)The persons to whom a requirement set out in an information standard may be made to apply are—
(a)a local authority,
(b)an integration joint board established by order under the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014,
(c)a health board constituted under section 2(1)(a) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (“the NHS Act”),
(d)a special health board constituted under section 2(1)(b) of the NHS Act,
(e)the Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service,
(f)Healthcare Improvement Scotland,
(g)the Scottish Ministers,
(h)a person providing services (whether directly or indirectly) pursuant to an agreement or other arrangement under any of the following provisions of the NHS Act—
(i)section 2C (which relates to primary medical services),
(ii)section 17C (which relates to personal medical or dental services),
(iii)section 17J (which relates to general medical services),
(iv)section 25 (which relates to general dental services),
(v)section 26 (which relates to general ophthalmic services),
(vi)section 27 (which relates to pharmaceutical services),
(i)a person providing independent health care services as defined by section 10F of the NHS Act,
(j)a person providing a care service as defined by section 47 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010,
(k)a person providing social work services as defined by section 48 of that Act,
(l)a person who—
(i)provides a product or service to a person mentioned in any of paragraphs (a) to (k), and
(ii)knows, or ought to know, that the product or service is (or is to be) used for, or in connection with, electronically processing Scottish health or social care information.
(2)The Scottish Ministers may by regulations modify this section so as to change, or clarify, the list of persons to whom an information standard may be made to apply.
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I1S. 4 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 39(2)
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