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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-safety-and-security-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/464",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health (Safety and Security) (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-safety-and-security-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Condition for articles to be restricted",
  "text": "(1) The placing of restrictions on having certain kinds of things in hospital and the removal of articles mentioned in regulation 4(c) are subject to the condition in paragraph (2).\n(2) The condition is that restrictions shall be placed on having any article or class of article either generally or in terms of the number of, access to or use of such article or class of article so as to minimise the impact on the freedom of the specified person compatible with the general condition in regulation 5(a).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/464/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:24:11.596330+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."
}