{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-agencies-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-agencies-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/175",
  "legislation_title": "The Nursing Agencies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-agencies-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Statement of purpose",
  "text": "(1) The registered person shall compile in relation to the agency a written statement which shall consist of a statement as to the matters listed in Schedule 1.\n(2) The registered person shall supply a copy of the statement of purpose to the RQIA and shall make a copy of it available on request for inspection by every service user and any person acting on behalf of a service user.\n(3) Nothing in regulation 21 shall require or authorise the registered person to contravene, or not to comply with –\n(a) any other provision of these Regulations; or\n(b) the conditions for the time being in force in relation to the registration of the registered person under Part III of the Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulation substituted (11.4.2014) by Health and Social Care (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 5), Sch. para. 1(1)(b) (with Sch. para. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 1.4.2005, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/175/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:52:52.751370+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."
}