{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-270",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-270.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/41",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006",
  "path": "section/270",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "270",
  "heading": "Provision of information by Registrar General",
  "text": "(1) The Registrar General may provide to any of the following persons any information to which this section applies—\n(a) the Secretary of State,\n(b) NHS England,\n(c) an integrated care board,\n(d) a local authority,\n(e) the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence,\n(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(g) a Special Health Authority which has functions that are exercisable in relation to England,\n(h) the Care Quality Commission, and\n(i) such other persons as the Secretary of State may specify in a direction.\n(2) Any information provided under subsection (1) must be provided in such form as appears to the Registrar General appropriate for the purpose of assisting the person to whom the information is provided in the performance of functions exercisable by the person in relation to the health service.\n(3) This section applies to any information—\n(a) entered in any register kept under the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 (c. 20),\n(b) entered in the Adopted Children Register maintained by the Registrar General under the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38), or\n(c) which is kept by the Registrar General under any other enactment and relates to any birth or death.\n(4) “Enactment” includes an enactment contained in subordinate legislation.\n(5) In this section, “local authority” has the same meaning as in section 2B.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 270(1) substituted (27.3.2012 for specified purposes, 1.4.2013 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 285(2)(a), 306(1)(d)(4); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 270(1)(a)-(i) inserted (27.3.2012 for specified purposes, 1.4.2013 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 285(2)(b), 306(1)(d)(4); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 1 para. 1(1)(2); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 270(1)(c) substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 4 para. 129; S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 270(1)(f) omitted (1.2.2023) by virtue of The Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/98), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 10(9) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 270(2) substituted (27.3.2012 for specified purposes, 1.4.2013 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 285(3)(a), 306(1)(d)(4); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 270(2) substituted (27.3.2012 for specified purposes, 1.4.2013 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 285(3)(b), 306(1)(d)(4); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 270(5) inserted (27.3.2012 for specified purposes, 1.4.2013 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 285(4), 306(1)(d)(4); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/41/section/270",
    "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."
}