{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legislative-reform-disclosure-of-adult-social-care-data-order-2025/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legislative-reform-disclosure-of-adult-social-care-data-order-2025/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/993",
  "legislation_title": "The Legislative Reform (Disclosure of Adult Social Care Data) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legislative-reform-disclosure-of-adult-social-care-data-order-2025",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 4 of Schedule 9 to the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 (disclosure of results of data matching etc) is amended as follows.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (6)(a)—\n(a) the words after “relates to” become sub-paragraph (i), and\n(b) at the end of that sub-paragraph insert “, or\n“(ii) in relation to patient data which are held for the purposes of local authority social care provided to individuals aged 18 or over, a local authority;”.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (12)—\n(a) in the opening words, after “sub-paragraph (6)” insert “and this sub-paragraph”, and\n(b) at the appropriate places insert—\n““local authority” has the meaning given by section 275(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006;”;\n““local authority social care” means—\n(a) social care provided or arranged for by a local authority; or\n(b) social care all or part of the cost of which is paid for with funds provided by a local authority;”;\n““social care” has the meaning given by section 251(12A) of the National Health Service Act 2006.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2014 c. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 4(12) was amended by paragraph 23 of Schedule 1 to the Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31). That amendment is not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2006 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 251(12A) was inserted by paragraph 7(3) of Schedule 4 to the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 (c. 1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/993/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:11:53.636598+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."
}