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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-health-and-social-care-act-2008-regulated-activities-regulations-2014/regulation-10",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111117613",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014",
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  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Dignity and respect",
  "text": "(1) Service users must be treated with dignity and respect.\n(2) Without limiting paragraph (1), the things which a registered person is required to do to comply with paragraph (1) include in particular—\n(a) ensuring the privacy of the service user;\n(b) supporting the autonomy, independence and involvement in the community of the service user;\n(c) having due regard to any relevant protected characteristics (as defined in section 149(7) of the Equality Act 2010) of the service user.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111117613/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:12:31.385826+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."
}