Health Identifiers Act 2014

Number 15 of 2014

HEALTH IDENTIFIERS ACT 2014

REVISED

Updated to 31 March 2022

This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Health Identifiers Act 2014. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.

All Acts up to and including Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Act 2022 (3/2022), enacted 31 March 2022, and all statutory instruments up to and including Health Identifiers Act 2014 (Health Service Providers) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 156 of 2022), made 31 March 2022, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.

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Number 15 of 2014


HEALTH IDENTIFIERS ACT 2014

REVISED

Updated to 31 March 2022


CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title and commencement

2. Interpretation

3. Regulations

4. Expenses

PART 2

Individual Health Identifiers

5. Assignment of individual health identifier

6. Establishment and maintenance of National Register of Individual Health Identifiers

7. Use, etc., of other identifying particulars

8. Provision of other identifying particulars by Minister of Government

9. Information to be provided by an tArd-Chláraitheoir to Minister

10. Access to National Register of Individual Health Identifiers

11. Use of individual health identifier and National Register of Individual Health Identifiers

12. Use of individual health identifier, and accessing of National Register of Individual Health Identifiers, in another Member State

PART 3

Health Services Provider Identifiers

13. Assignment of health services provider identifier

14. Establishment and maintenance of National Register of Health Services Provider Identifiers

15. Information to be provided by professional regulatory bodies

16. Information to be provided by relevant bodies

17. Information to be provided by health practitioners and relevant bodies concerning relevant employees and relevant agents

18. Use of relevant particulars (health services provider) obtained by Minister

19. Access to National Register of Health Services Provider Identifiers

20. Use of health services provider identifier and National Register of Health Services Provider Identifiers

PART 4

Offences

21. Offences relating to assignment of individual health identifiers

22. Offences relating to accessing and processing

23. Offence for specified person to access National Register of Individual Health Identifiers purporting to be other specified person

24. Offences relating to assignment of health services provider identifiers

25. Offences by bodies corporate

PART 5

Delegation of Relevant Functions of Minister

26. Delegation of relevant functions of Minister

PART 6

Application of Data Protection Regulation

27. Application of Data Protection Regulation

PART 7

Miscellaneous

28. Investigations

29. Agreement to carry out certain activities

30. Verification

31. Data exchange agreements

32. Processing of personal data

33. Minister’s power to specify form of documents

34. Minister’s power to extend time

35. Amendment of Dentists Act 1985

36. Amendment of section 52 of Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005

37. Amendment of section 35 of Pharmacy Act 2007

38. Amendment of section 57 of Medical Practitioners Act 2007

39. Amendment of section 55 of Nurses and Midwives Act 2011

SCHEDULE 1

Authorised Disclosees (Persons Who May Process Relevant Information (Individuals) for Particular Secondary Purposes)

SCHEDULE 2

Persons Who Fall within Paragraph (b) of Definition of “Specified Person” in Section 2(1)



Number 15 of 2014


HEALTH IDENTIFIERS ACT 2014

REVISED

Updated to 31 March 2022


An Act to provide for the assignment of a unique number to an individual to whom a health service is being, has been or may be provided; to provide for the assignment of a unique number to a person who provides a health service; to make provision for the establishment and maintenance of registers in respect of such numbers and other particulars of the individuals and other persons to whom the numbers are assigned; to make provision for the basis on which such registers may be accessed and the personal data contained therein may be processed; to provide for the delegation by order to the Health Service Executive of certain functions conferred on the Minister for Health; to provide for the consequential amendment of other enactments; and to provide for related matters. [8 th July, 2014]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: