{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-health-care-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-health-care-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-30.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/30",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Notification of death or unauthorised absence of a patient who is detained or liable to be detained under the Mental Health Act 1983",
  "text": "(1) The registered person must notify the registration authority without delay of the death or unauthorised absence of a patient who is liable to be detained by the registered person—\n(a) under the Mental Health Act 1983 (“the 1983 Act”); or\n(b) pursuant to an order or direction made under another enactment (which applies in relation to Wales), where that detention takes effect as if the order or direction were made pursuant to the provisions of the 1983 Act.\n(2) In this regulation—\n(a) References to persons “liable to be detained” (“agored i'w caethiwo”) include a community patient who has been recalled to hospital in accordance with section 17E of the 1983 Act, but do not include a patient who has been conditionally discharged and not recalled to hospital in accordance with section 42, 73 or 74 of the 1983 Act;\n(b) “community patient” (“claf cymunedol”) has the same meaning as in section 17A of the 1983 Act;\n(c) “hospital” (“ysbyty”) means a hospital within the meaning of Part 2 of that Act; and\n(d) “unauthorised absence” (“absenoldeb diawdurdod”) means an unauthorised absence from a hospital.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 30 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/30",
    "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."
}