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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-23",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2002/325",
  "legislation_title": "Private and Voluntary Health Care (Wales) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-wales-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Research",
  "text": "(1) The registered person shall ensure that—\n(a) before any research involving patients, information about patients, or human tissue is undertaken in or for the purposes of an establishment, 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 National Assembly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2002/325/regulation/23",
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  },
  "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."
}