{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-england-amendment-no-2-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-england-amendment-no-2-regulations-2006/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1734",
  "legislation_title": "The Private and Voluntary Health Care (England) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-england-amendment-no-2-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the PVH Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 2 (interpretation) of the PVH Regulations, in paragraph (1), in the appropriate alphabetical position, insert—\n““certificate” means a certificate of registration;\n“existing provider” means a person who immediately before 1st August 2006 was registered under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000 as carrying on an independent hospital, an independent clinic or an independent medical agency;\n“Fees Regulations” means the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) Regulations 2004;\n“new provider” means a person who carries on an independent hospital, an independent clinic or an independent medical agency and did so for the first time on or after 1st August 2006.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000 for the definitions of “independent hospital”, “independent clinic” and “independent medical agency”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/661 as amended by S.I. 2005/647."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1734/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:26:39.567746+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."
}