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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/135",
  "legislation_title": "General Dental Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the General Dental Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2003.\n(2) In these Regulations –\n“the principal Regulations” means the Health and Personal Social Services General Dental Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1993 No. 326 to which there are amendments not relevant to these regulations"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/135/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:03:58.769056+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."
}