{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dental-practice-board-regulations-1992/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dental-practice-board-regulations-1992/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/655",
  "legislation_title": "The Dental Practice Board Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dental-practice-board-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977;\n“associateship agreement” has the same meaning as in the National Health Service (General Dental Services) Regulations 1992;\n“the Board” means the Dental Practice Board;\n“conditions of service” does not include remuneration;\n“dentist” means a registered dental practitioner;\n“member” means a member of the Board including its chairman;\n“negotiations”, in relation to a class of officer, means negotiations taking place within a body recognised by the Secretary of State as being proper for the purposes of negotiating remuneration and conditions of service for that class of officer;\n“non-officer member” means a person who is a member by virtue of regulation 4(a) or (b)(i) or (ii); and\n“officer” means an officer of the Board.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n(a) any reference to a numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations; and\n(b) any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49; in section 128(1) see the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. Section 35(1) was substituted by S.I. 1985/39, article 7(9). Section 37 was amended by paragraph 50 of Schedule 1 to the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53) (“the 1980 Act”), renumbered as section 37(1) by section 12(2) of the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49) and further amended by section 25 of, and Schedule 3 to, that Act. See also Part III of Schedule 5 to the National Health Service Act 1977, amended by the 1980 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 80, the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 6, paragraph 3 and section 15(b), S.I. 1985/39, article 7(22) and the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), Schedule 1, Part III and Schedule 10. Section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the 1990 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/661."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 12(1) of the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/655/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:25:38.042681+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."
}