The False or Misleading Information (Specified Care Providers and Specified Information) Regulations 2015

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the False or Misleading Information (Specified Care Providers and Specified Information) Regulations 2015 and come into force—

(a) except as provided by sub-paragraph (b), at the end of the period of 21 days beginning with the day on which these Regulations are made, and

(b) in the case of paragraph 1 of Part 2 of the Schedule and regulation 3 insofar as it applies to that paragraph, on 1st April 2017.

(2) In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Care Act 2014;

“commissioning data set” or “CDS” means a collection of patient-level data on a particular activity;

“health service hospital” has the same meaning as in section 275(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006(1);

“the Information Centre” means the Health and Social Care Information Centre(2).

(1)

2006 c. 41. The definition of “health service hospital” was amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), section 55( 1) and paragraph 138(1) and (2)(b) of Schedule 4.

(2)

The Health and Social Care Information Centre is a body corporate established by section 252 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7).