Data (Use and Access) Act 2025

Prospective

3 (1) Section 250 (powers to publish information standards) is amended as follows. E+W

(2) In subsection (2), at the end insert “and includes, among other things, a standard relating to information technology or IT services used, or intended to be used, in connection with the processing of information (see section 250A)”.

(3) In subsection (2B)(c)—

(a) after “provision” insert “in, or in relation to, England”, and

(b) omit “in England”.

(4) In subsection (2B), at the end insert—

“(e) a relevant IT provider.”

(5) In subsection (3)—

(a) after “provision” insert “in, or in relation to, England”, and

(b) omit “in England”.

(6) In subsection (7)—

(a) in the opening words, for “section” substitute “Chapter”,

(b) after the definition of “health care” insert—

• ““information technology” includes—

  (a)

  computers,

  (b)

  other devices whose uses include the processing of information by electronic means (“IT devices”),

  (c)

  parts, accessories and other equipment made or adapted for use in connection with computers or IT devices,

  (d)

  software and code made or adapted for use in connection with computers or IT devices, and

  (e)

  networks and other infrastructure (whether physical or virtual) used in connection with other information technology;

• “IT service” means an information technology service, including any service (whether physical or virtual) which consists of, or is provided in connection with, the development, making available, operation or maintenance of information technology;”,

(c) in the definition of “processing”, omit “and (14)”, and

(d) at the end insert—

• ““relevant IT provider” means a person involved in marketing, supplying, providing or otherwise making available—

  (a)

  information technology,

  (b)

  an IT service, or

  (c)

  a service which consists of processing information using information technology,

  whether for payment or free of charge, but only so far as the technology or service is used, or intended to be used, in connection with the provision in, or in relation to, England of health care or of adult social care.”

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 15 para. 3 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 142(1)