{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-264C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-264C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/41",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006",
  "path": "section/264C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "264C",
  "heading": "Sections 264A and 264B: supplementary",
  "text": "(1) Before making regulations under section 264A or 264B the Secretary of State must consult any body which appears to the Secretary of State appropriate to represent UK producers.\n(2) Nothing in section 264A or 264B requires information to be provided, or authorises information to be disclosed or used, in contravention of the data protection legislation.\n(3) Nothing in section 264A or 264B affects any duties, obligations or powers to require or authorise information to be provided, disclosed or used which exist apart from that section.\n(4) In this section, “the data protection legislation” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 264A-264C inserted (7.8.2017) by Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Act 2017 (c. 23), ss. 8, 12(3); S.I. 2017/809, reg. 2(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 264C(2) substituted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 115(2) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 264C(4) inserted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 115(3) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/41/section/264C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:55.183741+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."
}