{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-health-care-wales-regulations-2011/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-health-care-wales-regulations-2011/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2011/734",
  "legislation_title": "The Independent Health Care (Wales) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-health-care-wales-regulations-2011",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PUBLIC HEALTH, WALES\nMade 10 March 2011\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 14 March 2011\nComing into force 5 April 2011\nThe Welsh Ministers, in exercise of powers conferred on them by sections 2(4), (7)(f) and (8), 22(1),(2)(a) to (d), (f) to (j), (5)(a) and (7)(a) to (h), (j) and (k), 25(1), 33, 34(1), 35 and 118(5) to (7) of the Care Standards Act 2000 and having consulted such persons as they considers appropriate, hereby make the following Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The registration authority in relation to Wales is the National Assembly for Wales (see section 5(1)(b) of the Care Standards Act 2000). These powers are transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 22(9) of the Care Standards Act 2000 for the requirement to consult."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/734/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:51:10.955714+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."
}