{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-subject-access-modification-health-order-1987/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1903",
  "legislation_title": "The Data Protection (Subject Access Modification) (Health) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-subject-access-modification-health-order-1987",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Data Protection Act 1984;\n“care” includes examination, investigation and diagnosis;\n“dental practitioner” and “medical practitioner” mean, respectively, a person registered under the Dentists Act 1984 and the Medical Act 1983 ;\n“health authority” has the same meaning as in section 128(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977 ;\n“Health Board” has the same meaning as in section 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 ;\n“Health and Social Services Board” has the same meaning as in Article 16 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 ;\n“health professional” means any person listed in the Schedule to this Order; and “the subject access provisions” has the meaning which it has for the purposes of Part IV of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1983 c. 54"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1977 c. 49. This definition was amended by Schedule 3 to 1984 c. 48"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1978 c. 29"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14.)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:18:32.308951+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."
}