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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005-independent-mental-capacity-advocates-general-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1832",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Independent Mental Capacity Advocates) (General) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005-independent-mental-capacity-advocates-general-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Mental Capacity Act 2005; and\n“IMCA” means an independent mental capacity advocate.\n(2) In these Regulations, references to instructions given to a person to act as an IMCA are to instructions given under sections 37 to 39 of the Act or under regulations made by virtue of section 41 of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1832/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:26:09.473985+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."
}