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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Access to Health Records (Control of Access) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 13th April 1993.
(2) In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Access to Health Records Act 1990.
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Access shall not be given under section 3(2) of the Act to any part of a health record which would disclose information showing that an identifiable individual was, or may have been, born in consequence of treatment services within the meaning of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990.
Virginia Bottomley
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State,
Department of Health
15th March 1993