Paragraph 131 F1

England and Wales

An assessor may, at all reasonable times, examine and take copies of—

(a)

any health record,

(b)

any record of, or held by, a local authority and compiled in accordance with a social services function, and

(c)

any record held by a person registered under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000 F2, Chapter 2 of Part 1 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 or Part 1 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016,

which the assessor considers may be relevant to the assessment which is being carried out.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. A1 inserted (1.4.2008 for certain purposes and otherwise 1.4.2009) by Mental Health Act 2007 (c. 12) , ss. 50 , 56 , Sch. 7 ; S.I. 2008/745 , art. 4(a) ; S.I. 2009/139 , art. 2(c) (with art. 3 , Sch. paras. 3 , 4 )
F2: Words in Sch. A1 para. 131(c) substituted (2.4.2018) by The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/195), regs. 2(1), 33(a)