{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dental-practice-boards-personal-dental-services-regulations-1998/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dental-practice-boards-personal-dental-services-regulations-1998/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2223",
  "legislation_title": "The Dental Practice Boards (Personal Dental Services) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dental-practice-boards-personal-dental-services-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Dental Practice Boards (Personal Dental Services) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st October 1998.\n(2) In these Regulations–\n“the Act” means the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997;\n“the Board” has the meaning given in section 17(6) of the Act;\n“pilot patient” means a person who receives personal dental services under a pilot scheme;\n“pilot scheme provider” means a person, other than an authority, who is a party to a pilot scheme;\n“prior approval system” means a system which requires a pilot scheme provider to submit to an authority for approval a description of the dental treatment a dental practitioner who performs personal dental services is proposing to carry out.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“Personal dental services” is defined in section 1(8) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“Pilot scheme” is defined in section 1(1) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "“Authority” is defined in section 1(8) of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2223/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:58.591922+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."
}