{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-and-personal-dental-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-wales-order-2006/article-31",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2006/946",
  "legislation_title": "The General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-and-personal-dental-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-wales-order-2006",
  "path": "article/31",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "–\n(1) In this Part—\n“the Service Committees Regulations” means the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992;\n“amendments” in respect of any regulation or regulations in the Service Committees Regulations means amendments made to that regulation or those regulations by paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to this Order;\n“appropriate LHB” has the same meaning as “appropriate Health Authority” in the Service Committees Regulations;\n“contracting LHB” means a Local Health Board that has entered into—\n(a) a general dental services contract with—\n(i) a dentist who is the subject of the allegation,\n(ii) a partnership, where a dentist who is the subject of the allegation is a partner, or\n(iii) a dental corporation, where a dentist who is the subject of the allegation is a director, chief executive or secretary of that corporation; or\n(b) a personal dental services agreement with—\n(i) a dentist who is the subject of the allegation, or\n(ii) a qualifying body, where a dentist who is the subject of the allegation is a director, chief executive or secretary of that body;\n“dentist” has the same meaning as in the Service Committees Regulations;\n“the Performers List LHB” means the Local Health Board in whose dental performers list the dentist’s name appears on 1 April 2006;\n“Performers Lists Regulations” means the National Health Service (Performers Lists) (Wales) Regulations 2004;\n“relevant contractor” means a party to a general dental services contract or personal dental services agreement with a contracting LHB, where that contractor is—\n(a) a dentist who is the subject of the allegation;\n(b) a partnership, where a dentist who is or was the subject of the allegation is a partner in that partnership; or\n(c) a dental corporation or qualifying body, where a dentist who is or was the subject of the allegation is a director, chief executive or secretary of that corporation or body; and\n“relevant date” means 1 April 2006.\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Part to—\n(a) a numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in the Service Committees Regulations; and\n(b) a numbered Schedule is to the Schedule to the Service Committees Regulations bearing that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/664."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/1020 (W.117)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2006/946/article/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:04:05.030214+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."
}