{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-england-amendment-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-england-amendment-regulations-2006/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/539",
  "legislation_title": "The Private and Voluntary Health Care (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-england-amendment-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Private and Voluntary Health Care (England) Regulations 2001",
  "text": "After Part III (conduct of health care establishments and agencies) of the Private and Voluntary Health Care (England) Regulations 2001 insert—\n“PART IIIA\nFREQUENCY OF INSPECTIONS OF HEALTH CARE ESTABLISHMENTS AND AGENCIES\nFrequency of inspections\n32A (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Commission shall arrange for premises which are used as an establishment, or for the purposes of an agency, to be inspected a minimum of once in every five year period.\n(2) Any inspection referred to in paragraph (1) may be unannounced.\n(3) In this regulation, “five year period” means a period commencing on 1st April in any year and ending on 31st March in the fifth year following.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/3968, amended by S.I. 2004/664; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/539/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:36:20.007479+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."
}