{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/section-251ZA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/section-251ZA.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/7",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012",
  "path": "section/251ZA",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "251ZA",
  "heading": "Monitoring compliance",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may require a person to provide the Secretary of State with documents, records or other information for the purposes of monitoring the person’s compliance with information standards published under section 250.\n(2) A requirement under subsection (1) may specify—\n(a) the form and manner in which information is to be provided, and\n(b) when information is to be provided.\n(3) A requirement under subsection (1) must be in writing.\n(4) For enforcement of requirements under subsection (1) against persons other than public bodies, see section 277E.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 251, 251ZA substituted for s. 251 (7.7.2025) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 95(3), 186(6); S.I. 2025/807, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 251ZA heading substituted (5.2.2026) by Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (c. 18), s. 142(1), Sch. 15 para. 7; S.I. 2026/82, reg. 2(z15)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/7/section/251ZA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:58.603352+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."
}