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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commission-for-health-improvement-functions-regulations-2003/regulation-18",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1587",
  "legislation_title": "The Commission for Health Improvement (Functions) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commission-for-health-improvement-functions-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Obtaining information and explanations",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 20, in conducting a review, inspection or investigation the Commission or a person authorised by the Commission under regulation 17(1) may require any of the persons to which paragraph (5) applies to produce any documents or information which appear to the Commission, or to the person authorised, to be necessary for the purposes of the review, inspection or investigation in question.\n(2) Subject to regulation 20, in conducting a review, inspection or investigation the Commission or a person authorised by the Commission may, if it or he thinks it necessary, require any of the persons to which paragraph (5) applies to give the Commission or, as the case may be, the person authorised an explanation of—\n(a) any matters which are the subject of the review, inspection or investigation; or\n(b) any documents or information inspected, copied or produced under paragraph (1) or regulation 17(5).\n(3) The Commission may, if it considers it necessary, require a person required to—\n(a) produce documents or information under paragraph (1); or\n(b) give an explanation under paragraph (2),\nto attend before the Commission or a person authorised by the Commission under regulation 17(1) in person to produce the documents or information or give the explanation.\n(4) The Commission may not require a person to attend in person in accordance with paragraph (3) unless reasonable notice of the intended date of attendance has been given to that person.\n(5) The persons referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) are—\n(a) an NHS body;\n(b) a chairman, member, director or employee of an NHS body, or any other person acting on behalf of such a body;\n(c) a member of a committee or sub-committee of an NHS body;\n(d) a service provider;\n(e) an employee of a service provider, or any other person acting on behalf of such a provider;\n(f) a person who provides or assists in the provision of, or is a member or an employee of a person or body who provides or assists in the provision of, services under the 1977 Act, or in connection with a pilot scheme under the 1997 Act, in accordance with an arrangement made with an NHS body, a service provider or a person to which sub-paragraph (g) applies;\n(g) a local authority which provides, or a person employed by a local authority to provide, services under the 1977 Act, or in connection with a pilot scheme under the 1997 Act, in accordance with arrangements made by virtue of section 31(1) of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1587/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:21:40.065720+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."
}