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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-health-and-social-care-act-2008-regulated-activities-regulations-2014/regulation-22",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111117613",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-health-and-social-care-act-2008-regulated-activities-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for a registered person to fail to comply with any of the requirements in the following regulations, as read with regulation 8—\n(a) regulation 11,\n(b) regulation 16(3), or\n(c) regulation 17(3).\n(2) A registered person commits an offence if the registered person fails to comply with a requirement of regulation 12, 13(1) to (4) or 14, as read with regulation 8, and such failure results in—\n(a) avoidable harm (whether of a physical or psychological nature) to a service user,\n(b) a service user being exposed to a significant risk of such harm occurring, or\n(c) in a case of theft, misuse or misappropriation of money or property, any loss by a service user of the money or property concerned.\n(3) It is an offence for a health service body to fail to comply with regulation 20(2)(a) and (3).\n(4) But it is a defence for a registered person, or (in the case of regulation 20(2)(a) and (3)) a health service body, to prove that they took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to prevent the breach of any of those regulations that has occurred.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111117613/regulation/22",
    "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."
}