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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commission-for-social-care-inspection-explanation-and-co-operation-regulations-2004/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/555",
  "legislation_title": "The Commission for Social Care Inspection (Explanation and Co-operation) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commission-for-social-care-inspection-explanation-and-co-operation-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, application and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Commission for Social Care Inspection (Explanation and Co-operation) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 1st April 2004.\n(2) Regulations 1 and 3 apply to England and Wales.\n(3) Regulation 2 applies to England only.\n(4) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003;\n“service provider” means a person other than a local authority who provides, has provided or has agreed to provide an English local authority social service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 148 of the Act for the definition of “local authority”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 148 of the Act for the definition of “English local authority social service”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/555/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:31:22.229272+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}