{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-commissioners-act-1993/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-commissioners-act-1993/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/46",
  "legislation_title": "Health Service Commissioners Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-commissioners-act-1993",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Use of information by Commissioner in other capacity.",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where the Commissioner also holds ... the office of Parliamentary Commissioner (an “additional office”).\n(2) Where—\n(a) a person initiates a complaint to the Commissioner as the holder of the additional office, and\n(b) the complaint relates partly to a matter with respect to which that person has previously initiated, or subsequently initiates, a complaint to the Commissioner in his capacity as such,\ninformation obtained by the Commissioner or his officers in the course of or for the purposes of the investigation of that other complaint may be disclosed for the purposes of carrying out his functions in relation to the complaint initiated to him as the holder of the additional office.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 17(1) substituted (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 49(2)(a) (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 17(1) repealed (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 49(2)(b), Sch. 7 (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 17(3) repealed (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 49(3) (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 17 extended (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1351, art. 17(5)(a); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/46/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:38.799510+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."
}