{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dental-auxiliaries-amendment-regulations-1991/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dental-auxiliaries-amendment-regulations-1991/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1706",
  "legislation_title": "The Dental Auxiliaries (Amendment) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dental-auxiliaries-amendment-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Dental Auxiliaries Regulations 1986",
  "text": "(1) The Dental Auxiliaries Regulations 1986 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.\n(2) In regulation 6 (fees prescribed by the General Dental Council) for “£6.00” there shall be substituted “£10.00”.\n(3) In regulation 23 (dental hygienists)—\n(a) in paragraph (1) after the words “of any other kind” there shall be added the words “, except that the scaling of teeth under sub-paragraph (b) above may be carried out by a dental hygienist under local infiltration analgesia administered by the dental hygienist or under any local or regional block analgesia administered by a registered dentist”;\n(b) in paragraph (2) after the words “has indicated” there shall be inserted the words “in writing”; and\n(c) in paragraph (3) for the words from “Except” to “dental work” there shall be substituted the words “A dental hygienist shall administer local infiltration analgesia”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/887."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1706/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:40:34.732358+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."
}