{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dental-practice-boards-personal-dental-services-regulations-1998/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dental-practice-boards-personal-dental-services-regulations-1998/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prior approval",
  "text": "(1) An authority may delegate to the Board any function it may have to operate a prior approval system, and where such a function is so delegated the Board shall perform it on behalf of the authority.\n(2) Where the Board operates a prior approval system as set out in paragraph (1) it shall send to the pilot scheme provider a copy of any correspondence it sends to the dental practitioner who is to perform the personal dental services which are subject to the prior approval.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2223/regulation/3",
    "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."
}