{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-and-personal-dental-services-transitional-provisions-order-2005/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-and-personal-dental-services-transitional-provisions-order-2005/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3435",
  "legislation_title": "The General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services Transitional Provisions Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-and-personal-dental-services-transitional-provisions-order-2005",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Persons who would be entitled to enter into a general dental services contract",
  "text": "(1) A Primary Care Trust must, if a person so wishes, enter into a personal dental services agreement instead of a general dental services contract, where—\n(a) the person would be entitled to enter into a general dental services contract with it under article 4 or 5; and\n(b) that person wishes to enter into a personal dental services agreement instead of a general dental services contract.\n(2) Where the person would be entitled to enter into a general dental services contract under article 5, the personal dental services agreement must be with that person and the persons referred to it in article 5(1)(b).\n(3) Where a person enters into a personal dental services agreement under paragraph (1), he shall have no entitlement to enter into a general dental services contract under article 4 or 5.\n(4) Where the contracting parties are unable to agree on a particular term of the agreement, article 14(3) and (4) shall apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3435/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:47.977108+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."
}