The Act Part 6 – Health Care: Scrutiny and Improvement Section 10Z6 – Regulations: registers and registration
243.Subsection (1)(a) provides for Scottish Ministers to make regulations about how HIS should maintain registers. Subsection (1)(b) allows regulations to be made about the information that should be provided in an application under Section 10P and what certificates of registration should include, for example the conditions of registration of an independent health care service. Subsection (1)(b)(iii) provides for regulations specifying types of applicants who cannot make certain kinds of applications.
244.Subsection (1)(c) and (d) allow regulations to be made that define the circumstances and conditions, including the payment of a fee, under which HIS should provide access to its registers. Subsection (2) allows for regulations to be made setting out when fees should not be payable and provides that HIS can give access free of charge. These regulations would be, for example, to prevent unrestricted access to the names and addresses of services, such as children's services, where there might be a consequent risk to children. The regulations could contain a requirement for someone to show they had a legitimate interest before they could be granted access to certain registers.
245.Subsection (1)(e) gives Scottish Ministers the power to make regulations conferring additional functions on HIS in relation to registration under Section 10P.