{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005-appropriate-body-england-regulations-2006/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005-appropriate-body-england-regulations-2006/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2810",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Appropriate Body) (England) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005-appropriate-body-england-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and application",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Appropriate Body) (England) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on—\n(a) 1 February 2007 for the purpose of enabling applications for approval in relation to research to be made to, and determined by, an appropriate body,\n(b) 1 April 2007 for all other purposes.\n(2) These Regulations apply in relation to the carrying out of research in England.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (31.1.2007)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/3474",
      "affecting_title": "The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Appropriate Body) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2810/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:18:10.736237+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."
}