Part 7: Supplementary and final provision Section 182: Regulations and consultation
This section makes provision concerning the form, process and procedure for making regulations under the powers in the Act, including consultation requirements. It makes it clear that, before making regulations, the Secretary of State must consult the Information Commissioner and such other persons as he considers appropriate, save for some exceptions. Those other persons will depend on the nature of the regulations in question, but an illustrative example would be where the regulations touch on healthcare matters and/or the processing of patient data. In such a case, the Secretary of State might consider it appropriate to consult, for example, the National Data Guardian for Health and Care, relevant healthcare bodies and relevant medical associations.