{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dental-vocational-training-authority-establishment-and-constitution-and-appeal-body-specification-order-1993/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dental-vocational-training-authority-establishment-and-constitution-and-appeal-body-specification-order-1993/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2211",
  "legislation_title": "The Dental Vocational Training Authority (Establishment and Constitution) and Appeal Body (Specification) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dental-vocational-training-authority-establishment-and-constitution-and-appeal-body-specification-order-1993",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Functions of the Authority",
  "text": "Subject to and in accordance with such directions as the Secretary of State may give to the Authority under the Act, the Authority shall perform on behalf of every Family Health Services Authority within England and Wales such functions relating to general dental services, or to dental practitioners who provide or may provide them, as the Secretary of State may direct.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See in particular sections 13 and 17 of the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2211/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:51:02.459292+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."
}