{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-subject-access-modification-health-order-1987/schedule",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-protection-subject-access-modification-health-order-1987/schedule.json",
  "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": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "HEALTH PROFESSIONALS",
  "text": "DESCRIPTION\nSTATUTORY DERIVATION\n(where applicable)\nNote This category shall be construed as not including any person belonging to a profession specified in the first column which, by virtue of an Order under section 10 of the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960, is for the time being treated as if it were not mentioned in section 1(2) of that Act and as including any person belonging to a profession not specified therein which is for the time being treated by virtue of such an Order as if it were mentioned therein.\nRegistered medical practitioner\nMedical Act 1983 , section 55.\nRegistered dentist\nDentists' Act 1984 , section 53(1).\nRegistered optician\nOpticians Act 1958 , section 30(1).\nRegistered pharmaceutical chemist or druggist\nPharmacy Act 1954 , section 24(1). Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 , Article 6(1).\nRegistered nurse, midwife or health visitor\nNurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 , section 10.\nRegistered chiropodist, dietician, occupational therapist, orthoptist or physiotherapist (subject to the Note below.)\nProfessions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960 , section 10.\nClinical psychologist, child psychotherapist or speech therapist\nArt therapist or music therapist employed by a health authority, Health Board or Health and Social Services Board\nScientist employed by such an authority or Board as a head of department",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 54"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c. 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1958 c. 32"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1954 c. 61"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1976/1213 (N.I.22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1979 c. 36"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1960 c. 66. Section 1(2) was amended by S.I. 1966/990 and 1986/630"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1994/17",
      "affecting_title": "Chiropractors Act 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1993/21",
      "affecting_title": "Osteopaths Act 1993"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1903/schedule",
    "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."
}