# The Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Act 2007 (Prescription of Information) Order 2007, Article 4: Prescription of information: “visual impairment information”


(1) Information of a description given in paragraph (2) is prescribed in relation to a local authority and a Health and Social Services Board, as “visual impairment information” for the purposes of section 1(3) of the Act (which permits disclosure of visual impairment information by a local authority or a Health and Social Services Board to certain bodies in connection with switchover help functions).
(2) The information referred to in paragraph (1) is, in relation to an individual who is registered as blind or partially sighted—
(a) his name and any alias;
(b) his date of birth;
(c) his address;
(d) the name, any alias and address of a person appointed to act on his behalf;
(e) his preferred method for receiving communications from the local authority or, as the case may be, the Health and Social Services Board; and
(f) in a case where the individual has died, that fact and the date on which he died.
(3) For the purposes of this article a person is registered as blind or partially sighted if he—
(a) is registered as blind or partially sighted in a register maintained by or on behalf of a local authority in England or Wales under section 29 of the National Assistance Act 1948 (welfare services);
(b) has been certified as blind or partially sighted in Scotland and in consequence is registered as blind or partially sighted in a register maintained by or on behalf of a local authority in Scotland; or
(c) has been certified as blind in Northern Ireland and in consequence is registered as blind in a register maintained by or on behalf of a Health and Social Services Board in Northern Ireland.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1768/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/digital-switchover-disclosure-of-information-act-2007-prescription-of-information-order-2007/article-4
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.