Medicines and Medical Devices Act 2021

Supplementary functions and information

3 (1) For the purposes of carrying out the core duties, the Commissioner may—

(a) make a report or recommendation to a relevant person;

(b) consult or receive information from patients or any other person the Commissioner thinks appropriate;

(c) request information from a relevant person;

(d) share information with a relevant person.

(2) A relevant person to whom a report or recommendation is made under sub-paragraph (1)(a) must provide a response to that report or recommendation within such period as the Commissioner may reasonably require.

(3) A relevant person must, so far as reasonably practicable, comply with a request by the Commissioner to provide information within such period as the Commissioner may reasonably require.

(4) Nothing in this Schedule authorises a disclosure of information which contravenes the data protection legislation (but in determining whether a disclosure would do so, take into account the powers conferred by this Schedule).

(5) In this paragraph—

• “data protection legislation” has the meaning given by section 3(9) of the Data Protection Act 2018;

• “health care” means all forms of health care provided for individuals, whether relating to physical or mental health, and including ancillary care;

• “relevant person” means—

  (a)

  a person who exercises functions of a public nature, relating to medicines or medical devices, so far as those functions are exercisable in relation to England;

  (b)

  any other person who, in the course of providing health care, provides services relating to medicines or medical devices in relation to England.