{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-and-personal-dental-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-wales-order-2006/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-and-personal-dental-services-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-wales-order-2006/article-4.json",
  "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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Applications for general dental services",
  "text": "Where, before 1 April 2006—\n(a) a person has made an application to a relevant dental practitioner to receive general dental services in accordance with regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (Choice of Dental Practitioner) Regulations 1998; and\n(b) that application has not been finally determined before that date,\nthat application will be treated as a request made to the succeeding contractor for services under the term of the contract giving effect to paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the GDS Contracts Regulations or under the term of the agreement giving effect to paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the PDS Agreements Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“General dental services” has the meaning given to it in section 35(1A) of the 1977 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/2222."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2006/946/article/4",
    "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."
}