Section 15 Duty to co-operate with CommissionerI1

The Commissioner may request a specified public authority to co-operate with the Commissioner in any way that the Commissioner considers necessary for the purposes of the Commissioner's functions.

A specified public authority must, so far as reasonably practicable, comply with a request made to it under this section.

In this section “specified public authority” means any of the following—

The Secretary of State may by regulations amend this section so as to—

Before making regulations under subsection (4) the Secretary of State must consult the Commissioner.

Regulations under subsection (4) may not contain provision adding a devolved Welsh authority as a specified public authority for the purposes of this section.

In this section—

• “devolved Welsh authority” has the meaning given by section 157A of the Government of Wales Act 2006;

• “English local authority” means—

  1. (a)

     a county council or district council in England,

  2. (b)

     a London borough council,

  3. (c)

     the Greater London Authority,

  4. (d)

     the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a local authority, or

  5. (e)

     the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

• “immigration officer” means a person appointed as an immigration officer under paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Immigration Act 1971;

• “NHS body in England” means—

  1. (a)

     a National Health Service trust in England established under section 25 of the National Health Service Act 2006,

  2. (b)

     an NHS foundation trust within the meaning given by section 30 of that Act,

  3. (c)

     F3NHS England, or

  4. (d)

     F4an integrated care board established under section 14Z25 of that Act;

  5. (e)

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• “public authority” means any public authority within the meaning of section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998, other than a court or tribunal.