Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent1

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st June 2002.

2

In these Regulations—

  • “the Act” means the Health and Social Care Act 2001,

  • “public authority” has the same meaning as in section 3(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 M1;

  • F1...

  • F2“research ethics committee” means—

    1. a

      a research ethics committee recognised or established by or on behalf of the Health Research Authority under the Care Act 2014, or

    2. b

      any other group of persons which assesses the ethics of research involving individuals and which is recognised for that purpose by or on behalf of the Welsh Ministers.

3

Any notice given under these Regulations shall be—

a

in writing; or

b

transmitted by electronic means in a legible form which is capable of being used for subsequent reference.

4

Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation which bears that number in these Regulations and any reference to a numbered paragraph in a regulation is a reference to the paragraph which bears that number in that regulation.

5

These Regulations extend to England and Wales only.