{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-health-care-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-health-care-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-39.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/39",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Treatment of children",
  "text": "The registered person must ensure that, where a child is treated in the hospital—\n(a) the child is treated in accommodation which is separate from accommodation in which adult patients are treated;\n(b) particular medical, physical, psychological, social, educational and supervision needs arising from the child’s age are met;\n(c) the child’s treatment is provided by persons who have appropriate qualifications, skills and experience in the treatment of children;\n(d) the child’s parents are kept fully informed of the child’s condition and so far as is practicable consulted about all aspects of the child’s treatment, except where the child is competent to consent to treatment and does not wish his or her parents to be so informed and consulted.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 39 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/39",
    "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."
}