The National Health Service Central Register (Scotland) Regulations 2006

Regulation 4

SCHEDULE 2 Information which may be provided from the register and persons to whom it may be provided

Column (1) – information which may be provided by the Registrar General under section 57(6) of the Act	Column (2) – persons, or descriptions of persons, to whom the Registrar General may, under section 57(4) and (6) of the Act, provide the relative information
1.  Any entry information.	The Common Services Agency; a Health Board; a Special Health Board.
2.  Any entry information, except postcode and reference code indicating address.	Any– (a) “English NHS body”, “Welsh NHS body” or “cross-border SHA” within the meaning of Part 2 of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003(1); (b) Health and Social Services Board established under article 16 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(2).
3.  Any entry information, except postcode and reference code indicating address.	The Office of National Statistics and the Northern Ireland Central Services Agency for the Health and Social Services.
4.  Any entry information.	A researcher conducting a medical research project.
5.  For an individual in relation to whom information has been provided by the local authority– (a) the principal reference number on the register which relates uniquely to the individual as the Registrar General has determined under section 57(3)(h) of the Act; (b) the unique patient number determined by the Common Services Agency; and (c) any other entry information, except postcode and reference code indicating address, which is equivalent to the information that has been provided by the local authority but does not match that information.	The local authority which has provided the information referred to in column 1.
6.  Such reference numbers as the Registrar General has determined under section 57(3)(h) of the Act which relate uniquely to– (a) those who serve or have served in the naval, military or air forces of the Crown; or (b) dependents of those individuals.	The Ministry of Defence or the naval, military or air forces of the Crown.
7.  Any entry information requested in relation to the prevention or detection of serious crime (within the meaning of section 93(4)(a) or (b) of the Police Act 1997(3)), to the apprehension or prosecution of those suspected of having committed such crime or to national security, except the entry information described in entries 4 and 5 in Schedule 1.	A chief constable of a police force in Scotland, England and Wales or Northern Ireland, the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency established under section 36(1)(a)(ii) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967(4), the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency(5) or the Security Service.
8.  The fact that an individual’s information is contained on the register, or fact and date of death.	Any– (a) practising solicitor; or (b) body which may refer to itself as a “charity” in Scotland(6).

(1)

2003 c. 43. Section 148 sets out definitions of the terms “English NHS body”, “Welsh NHS body” and “cross-border SHA” (Strategic Health Authority).

(2)

S.I. 1972/1265 (NI 14).

(3)

1997 c. 50.

(4)

1967 c. 77.

(5)

Established under section 2 of the Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 10) as successor to the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency.

(6)

Part 1 (in particular sections 13 and 14) and sections 99 and 106 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 10) provide for this.