{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-national-health-service-dental-charges-regulations-2005/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-national-health-service-dental-charges-regulations-2005/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110736400",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Dental Charges) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-national-health-service-dental-charges-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Charges for the provision of dental services",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, a charge of the amount provided for in, and calculated in accordance with, regulation 4 may be made and recovered in respect of—\n(a) the provision of relevant primary dental services; and\n(b) the supply of dental appliances under the Act otherwise than as part of relevant primary dental services.\n(2) No charge shall be made and recovered under paragraph (1) in respect of—\n(a) a supply under the Act, otherwise than as part of relevant primary dental services, of dental appliances to a person who has undergone operative procedures affecting the mandible, the maxilla or the soft tissues of the mouth as part of treatment for invasive tumours;\n(b) a prisoner;\n(c) the provision of dental public health services;\n(d) the removal of sutures; or\n(e) the examination and assessment of a patient leading to—\n(i) the issue of a prescription,\n(ii) the repair of a dental appliance,\n(iii) the arrest of bleeding, or\n(iv) the removal of sutures,\nif, at the same time, no other treatment listed in Schedule 1, 2 or 4 is provided and no dental appliances listed in Schedule 3 are supplied.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110736400/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:21:48.792873+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."
}