{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-health-and-social-care-information-standards-procedure-regulations-2025/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348270587",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Social Care Information Standards (Procedure) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-health-and-social-care-information-standards-procedure-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Procedures in connection with information standards",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), when preparing or publishing an information standard under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (powers to publish information standards) , the responsible authority must follow the requirements set out in regulations 3 to 9.\n(2) Regulations 3 to 5 do not apply to the preparation of an information standard that is intended to replace a previously published information standard—\n(a) where the responsible authority is satisfied that the replacement of that information standard will not have a significant effect on those to whom it applies; or\n(b) to the extent that the new information standard is required in order to discharge a legal obligation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Relevant amendments are made by section 95, paragraphs 1(1) and 19 of Schedule 1 and paragraph 22 of Schedule 9 of the Health and Care Act 2022 and paragraph 172 of Schedule 19(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018 c. 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348270587/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:39:21.910061+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."
}