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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-homes-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-26",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/160",
  "legislation_title": "The Nursing Homes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
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  "path": "regulation/26",
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  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Clinical trials and research",
  "text": "The registered person shall ensure that –\n(a) before any research involving patients or information about patients is undertaken in or for the purposes of the nursing home, a research proposal is prepared and approval is obtained from the appropriate Ethics Committee;\n(b) any clinical trial to be conducted in the nursing home has been authorised in accordance with the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 26 in operation at 1.4.2005, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/1031"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/160/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:53:03.905822+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."
}