{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-england-regulations-2001/regulation-24",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3968",
  "legislation_title": "The Private and Voluntary Health Care (England) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-england-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Research",
  "text": "(1) The registered person shall ensure that—\n(a) before any research involving patients, information about patients, or bodily material and organs is undertaken in or for the purposes of an establishment, or for the purposes of an agency, a research proposal is prepared and approval is obtained from the appropriate Research Ethics Committee; and\n(b) all such research projects include adequate safeguards for patients and employees.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), “the appropriate Research Ethics Committee” means a research ethics committee established in accordance with guidance issued from time to time by the Department of Health.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/1031",
      "affecting_title": "The Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3968/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:19:02.233512+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."
}