7. (1) For the purposes of assigning an individual health identifier to an individual, or for establishing and maintaining the National Register of Individual Health Identifiers, the Minister may use any of the individual’s other identifying particulars obtained by him or her or the Executive (whether before or after the coming into operation of this section).

(2) For the purposes of enabling the assigning of individual health identifiers to individuals, a health services provider who provides, or has provided, or is proposing to provide, a health service to an individual may—

(a) subject to paragraph (b), request the individual (or, in the case of a deceased individual, the individual’s personal representative) to provide the provider with the individual’s other identifying particulars, or

(b) in the case of an individual who may require the assistance of another person to obtain a health service (whether due to the age or lack of capacity of the individual or for any other reason), request the other person to provide the provider with the individual’s other identifying particulars.

(3) An individual (or personal representative) or other person who receives a request referred to in subsection (2) shall, if one or more of the individual’s other identifying particulars are known to him or her, comply with the request as soon as is reasonably practicable to the extent that such particulars are so known.

(4) A health services provider shall, not later than 30 days after being provided with the individual’s other identifying particulars pursuant to subsection (3), provide the Minister with such particulars.

(5) Where a health services provider has, pursuant to subsection (4), provided the Minister with the individual’s other identifying particulars and it subsequently comes to the attention of the provider that any of those particulars were not, or are no longer, accurate, he or she shall, not later than 30 days after the inaccurate information concerned comes to his or her attention, give the Minister a notice—

(a) stating particulars of the inaccurate information, and

(b) if known to the provider, stating the correct other identifying particulars which should replace the inaccurate information.

(6) Subsection (5) shall, with all necessary modifications, apply to other identifying particulars provided to the Minister pursuant to paragraph (b) of that subsection as that subsection applies to other identifying particulars provided to the Minister pursuant to subsection (4) .