{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2012/regulation-27",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2112",
  "legislation_title": "The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Regulated activity relating to vulnerable adults",
  "text": "The provision of psychotherapy or counselling, but not life coaching, to an adult which is related to health care the adult is receiving from, or under the direction or supervision of, a health care professional as defined in paragraph 7(3) of Schedule 4 to the 2006 Act is regulated activity relating to vulnerable adults under paragraph 7(1)(g) of Schedule 4 to the 2006 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 7(3) of Schedule 4 to the 2006 Act was substituted by section 66(3) of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2112/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:22:07.575259+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."
}