[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1, Parts 1 to 399]
[Revised as of October 1, 2000]
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[CITE: 42CFR2.17]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
                    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE,
                        DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
                             HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 2--CONFIDENTIALITY OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE PATIENT RECORDS--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart B--General Provisions
 
Sec. 2.17  Undercover agents and informants.

    (a) Restrictions on placement. Except as specifically authorized by 
a court order granted under Sec. 2.67 of these regulations, no program 
may knowingly employ, or enroll as a patient, any undercover agent or 
informant.
    (b) Restriction on use of information. No information obtained by an 
undercover agent or informant, whether or not that undercover agent or 
informant is placed in a program pursuant to an authorizing court order, 
may be used to criminally investigate or prosecute any patient.

[52 FR 21809, June 9, 1987; 52 FR 42061, Nov. 2, 1987]