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The Healthcare Improvement Scotland (Inspections) Amendment Regulations 2024

Type Scottish-Statutory-Instrument

Publication 2024-06-13

State In force

Jurisdiction Scotland

Department King's Printer for Scotland

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Made: 13th June 2024

Coming into force: 19th June 2024

In accordance with section 105(3) of that Act[^f00002], a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Healthcare Improvement Scotland (Inspections) Amendment Regulations 2024 and come into force on 19 June 2024.

Amendment of the Healthcare Improvement Scotland (Inspections) Regulations 2011

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(1) The Healthcare Improvement Scotland (Inspections) Regulations 2011[^f00003] are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) In regulation 5(4) (power to require information) after “health professional” insert “or a person authorised by HIS to carry out an inspection under section 10K (authorised persons)”.

Signed

NEIL GRAY — A member of the Scottish Government — 13th June 2024

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Healthcare Improvement Scotland (Inspections) Regulations 2011 (“the 2011 Regulations”).

Regulation 2 amends regulation 5(4) (power to require information) of the 2011 Regulations to provide that a person authorised to carry out an inspection under section 10K of the National Health Care (Scotland) Act 1978 can inspect medical records.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1978 c. 29. Section 10O was inserted by section 108 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8).

[^f00002]: Section 105(3) was relevantly amended by paragraph 21(a) of schedule 17 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.

[^f00003]: S.S.I. 2011/184, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

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