PART 9

Health and adult social care services: information
CHAPTER 1

Information standards

Information standards: procedure etc
251
1
Regulations—
a
must make provision about the procedure to be followed in connection with the preparation and publication of information standards under section 250;
b
may require an information standard published under section 250 to be reviewed periodically in accordance with the regulations.
2
Before laying a draft of regulations under subsection (1) before either House of Parliament, the Secretary of State must consult such persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.
3
For the purposes of section 250 the Secretary of State or NHS England may adopt an information standard prepared or published by another person.
Ss. 251, 251ZA substituted for s. 251 (7.7.2025) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 95(3), 186(6); S.I. 2025/807, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)