{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1998/245",
  "legislation_title": "General Dental Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 5A of the principal regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 5A of the principal regulations (applications for vocational training numbers), in paragraph (4), for sub-paragraph (d) there shall be substituted—\n“(d) he has practised in primary dental care in either the community dental service or the armed forces of the Crown for a period amounting in aggregate to not less than four years full-time employment (or part-time employment of equivalent duration), and has so practised for not less than four months in full-time employment (or part-time employment of equivalent duration) within the period of four years ending with the date of his application under regulation 5(1).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 5A was inserted by S.R. 1993 No. 401"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/245/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:23:36.734407+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."
}