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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-25",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/323",
  "legislation_title": "The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "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 2 to the 2007 Order is regulated activity relating to vulnerable adults under paragraph 7(1)(g) of Schedule 2 to the 2007 Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 7(3) of Schedule 2 to the 2007 Order was substituted by section 78 of, and paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 7 of, the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 7(1)(g) of Schedule 2 to the 2007 Order was substituted by section 78 of, and paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 7 of, the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/323/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:14:15.371462+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."
}