{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-and-personal-dental-services-transitional-provisions-order-2005/article-3",
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  "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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Entitlement to a general dental services contract",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 173(2) of the 2003 Act, the circumstances in which a Primary Care Trust must enter into a general dental services contract with a person who, on 31st March 2006, is providing services under section 35 of the 1977 Act are prescribed in articles 4 and 5.\n(2) Nothing in this Order shall require a Primary Care Trust to enter into a general dental services contract with any person (whether as an individual or as a member of a partnership) on more than one occasion.",
  "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/3",
    "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."
}