{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-personal-files-housing-scotland-regulations-1992/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-personal-files-housing-scotland-regulations-1992/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1852",
  "legislation_title": "The Access to Personal Files (Housing) (Scotland) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-personal-files-housing-scotland-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Exemption as to health",
  "text": "(1) Where accessible personal information contains information as to the physical or mental health of the tenant or any other individual and was provided by a health professional the housing authority, within 14 days of receiving a request under regulation 4, shall notify—\n(a) the health board or National Health Service trust concerned if the information was provided by or on behalf of a health professional in the course of his employment (whether under a contract of service or for services) with that health board or National health Service trust; or\n(b) where sub-paragraph (a) above does not apply, the person who appears to the housing authority to be the appropriate health professional,\nthat a request under regulation 4 has been received and that the accessible personal information contains personal information of the kind mentioned in this paragraph.\n(2) On receiving a notification under paragraph (1) the health board or National Health Service trust or the appropriate health professional shall within 28 days of the date of the notice inform the housing authority in writing whether the giving of access would be likely to cause serious harm to the physical or mental health of the tenant or any other individual.\n(3) Where the health board, National Health Service trust or appropriate health professional informs the housing authority that the giving of access would be likely to cause serious harm to the physical or mental health of the tenant or any other individual the housing authority shall not give access to the accessible personal information mentioned in paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1852/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:18:06.318863+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}