{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018/section-185",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018/section-185.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2018/12",
  "legislation_title": "Data Protection Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-act-2018",
  "path": "section/185",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "185",
  "heading": "Avoidance of certain contractual terms relating to health records",
  "text": "(1) A term or condition of a contract is void in so far as it purports to require an individual to supply another person with a record which—\n(a) consists of the information contained in a health record, and\n(b) has been or is to be obtained by a data subject in the exercise of a data subject access right.\n(2) A term or condition of a contract is also void in so far as it purports to require an individual to produce such a record to another person.\n(3) The references in subsections (1) and (2) to a record include a part of a record and a copy of all or part of a record.\n(4) In this section, “data subject access right” means a right under—\n(a) Article 15 of the UK GDPR (right of access by the data subject);\n(b) Article 20 of the UK GDPR (right to data portability);\n(c) section 45 of this Act (law enforcement processing: right of access by the data subject);\n(d) section 94 of this Act (intelligence services processing: right of access by the data subject).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 185(4)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 79 (with reg. 5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 185(4)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 79 (with reg. 5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 185 in force at 25.5.2018 by S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/section/185",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:04:55.804064+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}