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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-act-2014/section-81",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/23",
  "legislation_title": "Care Act 2014",
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  "path": "section/81",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "81",
  "heading": "Duty of candour",
  "text": "In section 20 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (regulation of regulated activities), after subsection (5) insert—\n(5A) Regulations under this section must make provision as to the provision of information in a case where an incident of a specified description affecting a person's safety occurs in the course of the person being provided with a service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 81 in force at 7.7.2014 for specified purposes by S.I. 2014/1714, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 81 in force at 15.7.2014 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2014/1714, art. 3(1)"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/23/section/81",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:01:48.374856+00:00",
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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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}