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Restraint
Definition in secondary legislation
From:
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, reg. 13
(7) For the purposes of this regulation, a person controls or restrains a service user if that person--
(a) uses, or threatens to use, force to secure the doing of an act which the service user resists, or
(b) restricts the service user's liberty of movement, whether or not the service user resists,
including by use of physical, mechanical or chemical means.
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