The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2004

Provision of information

77.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the contractor shall, at the request of the Primary Care Trust, produce to the Primary Care Trust or to a person authorised in writing by the Primary Care Trust or allow it, or a person authorised in writing by it, to access—

(a) any information which is reasonably required by the Primary Care Trust for the purposes of or in connection with the contract; and

(b) any other information which is reasonably required in connection with the Primary Care Trust’s functions.

(2) The contractor shall not be required to comply with any request made in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) unless it has been made by the Primary Care Trust in accordance with directions relating to the provision of information by contractors given to it by the Secretary of State under section 17 of the Act (Secretary of State’s directions: exercise of functions)(1).

(1)

Section 17 of the Act was substituted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), section 12(1) and amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15), Schedule 5, paragraph 5(3) and the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), Schedule 1, paragraph 7.