{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-health-care-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-health-care-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-25.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": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Research",
  "text": "(1) The registered person must ensure that—\n(a) before any research involving patients, information about patients, or human tissue is undertaken in or for the purposes of an establishment, a research proposal is prepared and approval is obtained from the appropriate Research Ethics Committee; and\n(b) all such research projects include adequate safeguards for patients and employees.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), “the appropriate Research Ethics Committee” (“y Pwyllgor Moeseg Ymchwil priodol”) means a group of persons which assesses the ethics of research involving individuals and which is recognised for that purpose by or on behalf of the Welsh Ministers.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 25(2) substituted (1.1.2015) by Care Act 2014 (c. 23), s. 127, Sch. 8 para. 12 (with s. 119(3)); S.I. 2014/2473, art. 5(n)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 25 in force at 5.4.2011, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/734/regulation/25",
    "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."
}