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Version date: 1 December 2001 - onwards
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Article 311 Access to medical reports: "insurance purposes"

(1) Section 2 of the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988 (interpretation) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1), for the definition of "insurance purposes" substitute -

""insurance purposes", in a case of any individual who has entered into, or is seeking to enter into, a contract of insurance with an insurer, means the purposes of that insurer in relation to that individual;

"insurer" means -

(a) a person who has permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to effect or carry out contracts of insurance;

(b) an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(d) of Schedule 3 to that Act, which has permission under paragraph 15 of that Schedule (as a result of qualifying for authorisation under paragraph 12 of that Schedule) to effect or carry out relevant contracts of insurance.".

(3) After that subsection, insert -

"(1A) The definitions of "insurance purposes" and "insurer" in subsection (1) must be read with -

(a) section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

(b) any relevant order under that section; and

(c) Schedule 2 to that Act.".