Part 2

Standards
Chapter 4

NHS health care: functions of National Assembly for Wales

Ancillary powers

Power to require documents and information
74
1
The Assembly may at any time require any person specified in subsection (2) to provide it with any information, documents, records (including personal records) or other items—
a
which relates or relate to—
i
the provision of health care by or for a Welsh NHS body; or
ii
the discharge of any of the functions of a Welsh NHS body; and
b
which the Assembly considers it necessary or expedient to have for the purposes of this Chapter.
2
The persons referred to in subsection (1) are—
a
the Welsh NHS body;
b
any person providing health care for, or exercising functions of, the Welsh NHS body;
c
a local authority in Wales.
3
The power in subsection (1) to require the provision of records includes, in relation to records kept by means of a computer, power to require the provision of the records in legible form.
4
Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with any requirement imposed by virtue of this section is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
S. 74 in force at 1.4.2004 by S.I. 2004/873, art. 2(b)
Pt. 2 Ch. 4 modified by 2004 c. 17, s. 10(4) (as substituted (1.10.2010) by The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Consequential Amendments No.2) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/813), arts. 1(1), 15)