{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/primary-medical-services-scotland-act-2004-modification-of-enactments-order-2004/schedule/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/primary-medical-services-scotland-act-2004-modification-of-enactments-order-2004/schedule/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2004/167",
  "legislation_title": "The Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (Modification of Enactments) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/primary-medical-services-scotland-act-2004-modification-of-enactments-order-2004",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Access to Health Records Act 1990 (c. 23)",
  "text": "(1) The Access to Health Records Act 1990 is amended as follows–\n(2) In section 1(2) (“Health record” and related expressions), for paragraph (a) substitute–\n“(a) in the case of a record made by a health professional performing primary medical services under a general medical services contract made with a Health Board, the person who entered into the contract with the Board;\n(aa) in the case of a record made by a health professional performing such services in accordance with arrangements under section 17C of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 with a Health Board, the person who made the arrangements with the Board;”.\n(3) In section 1(2)(b), after “by a health service body” insert “(and not falling within paragraph (aa) above)”.\n(4) In section 7 (duty of health service bodies etc. to take advice)–\n(a) in subsection (2), omit the words from “(other” to “section 1(2)(a) above)”; and\n(b) omit subsection (3).\n(5) In section 11(interpretation)–\n(a) in the appropriate place, insert–\n““general medical services contract” means a contract under section 17J of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978”; and\n(b) omit the definition of “general practitioner”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Relevant amendments to section 1(2) were made by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997(c. 46)(“the 1997 Act”), Schedule 2, paragraph 66(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Relevant amendments to section 7 were made by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), Schedule 1, paragraph 119(3)(b) and (c)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Relevant amendments to section 11 were made by the 1997 Act, Schedule 2, paragraph 66(3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/167/schedule/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:31:49.771368+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."
}