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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-england-regulations-2001/regulation-47",
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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/47",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Mental health records",
  "text": "The registered person shall ensure that any records which are required to be made under the Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and Consent to Treatment) Regulations 1983, and which relate to the detention or treatment of a patient in an independent hospital, are kept for a period of not less than five years beginning on the date on which the person to whom they relate ceases to be a patient in the hospital.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/893, as amended."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2828",
      "affecting_title": "The Mental Health Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3968/regulation/47",
    "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."
}