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  "legislation_title": "Care Act 2014",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In regulation 2(1) of the Nursing Homes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/160), for the definition of “ethics committee” substitute—\n““ethics committee” means a group of persons which assesses the ethics of research involving individuals and which is recognised for that purpose by or on behalf of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 4 in force at 1.1.2015 by S.I. 2014/2473, art. 5(n)"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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