6.0 - INFORMATION STATEMENT IN RELATION TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1992

The Freedom of Information Act 1992 defines a court to include a tribunal, therefore the Board is a court within the meaning of that Act. Clause 5 of the Glossary of that Act provides: "A document relating to a court is not to be regarded as a document of the court unless it relates to matters of an
administrative nature". There are a number of documents in patients files, held by the Board which are not of an administrative nature and therefore not subject to the Freedom of Information Act 1992.