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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-33",
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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/33",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Pathology services",
  "text": "The registered person shall ensure that—\n(a) an adequate range of pathology services is available to meet the needs of the hospital;\n(b) those services are provided to an appropriate standard;\n(c) appropriate arrangements are made for the collection, and (where pathology services are provided outside the hospital) transportation of pathology specimens; and\n(d) the patient from whom a specimen was taken, and such specimen, is identifiable at all times.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2002/325/regulation/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:14:45.530660+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."
}