{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006-miscellaneous-provisions-order-2012/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2113",
  "legislation_title": "The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006-miscellaneous-provisions-order-2012",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exceptions from regulated activity relating to vulnerable adults",
  "text": "The provision to an adult of health care (as defined in paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 4 to the Act) by a person who is not, but who acts under the direction or supervision of, a health care professional (as defined in paragraph 7(3) of Schedule 4 to the Act) is not to be treated as a regulated activity relating to vulnerable adults where that health care—\n(a) is provided under regulations under Part 6 of the National Health Service Act 2006 or Part 6 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 in practice premises or as mobile services; or\n(b) is provided in a registered pharmacy (within the meaning of Part IV of the Medicines Act 1968).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in force at 10.9.2012 in accordance with, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 4 to the Act was substituted by section 66(2) of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 7(3) of Schedule 4 to the Act was substituted by section 66(2) of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2006 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2006 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1968 c. 67."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2113/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:22:06.704156+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."
}