


(1) This section applies for the purposes of section 1 and this section. (10) Schedule 1 makes further provision about the Data Guardian. (9) Nothing in subsection (3) requires a public body or person to have regard to guidance that is not relevant to the functions of the body or the activities of the person that are mentioned in that subsection. (a) those cases subject to specified exceptions, or (8) The power to publish guidance or to give advice, information and assistance may (as well as being exercised in relation to all cases to which it extends) be exercised in relation to. (7) The Data Guardian may give advice and information about, and assistance in relation to, the processing of health and adult social care data in England. (6) Before publishing any guidance, the Data Guardian must consult such persons as the Data Guardian considers appropriate. (5) The Data Guardian may revise any guidance as the Data Guardian considers appropriate, but if any guidance is revised, the guidance must be published as revised. (4) The Data Guardian must keep under review any guidance that has been published and has effect. Pursuant to arrangements with a public body falling within paragraph (a). (i) services as part of the health service, (b) a person (other than a public body) providing. (a) a public body exercising functions that relate to the health service, adult social care or adult carer support in England (3) The following must have regard to such guidance. (2) The Data Guardian may publish guidance about the processing of health and adult social care data in England. (1) The Secretary of State must appoint an individual to hold office as the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care (in this Act, “the Data Guardian”). B e it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- 1 National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care
