The Controlled Drugs (Supervision of Management and Use) Regulations 2006

Occurrence reports

29.—(1) An accountable officer (other than an accountable officer nominated or appointed as accountable officer for a Primary Care Trust or Health Board) must give, on a quarterly basis, an occurrence report to the accountable officer nominated or appointed as accountable officer for the Primary Care Trust or Health Board that is leading any local intelligence network of which he or his designated body is a member.

(2) The occurrence report may contain the following information—

(a) details of any concerns that his designated body has regarding its management or use of controlled drugs; or

(b) confirmation by his designated body that it has no concerns to report regarding its management or use of controlled drugs.

(3) Nothing in this regulation requires or permits any disclosure of information which is prohibited by or under any other enactment.

(4) In determining for the purposes of paragraph (3) whether disclosure is not prohibited by reason of being a disclosure of personal data which is exempt from the non-disclosure provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 by virtue of section 35(1) of that Act (disclosure required by law or made in connection with legal proceedings etc.), it is to be assumed that the disclosure is required by this regulation.