{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-and-personal-dental-services-transitional-provisions-order-2005/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-and-personal-dental-services-transitional-provisions-order-2005/article-6.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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Pilot scheme providers",
  "text": "(1) Subject to section 28M of the 1977 Act (but not subject to regulation 4 and 5 of the GDS Contracts Regulations), a Primary Care Trust must, if a pilot scheme provider so wishes, enter into a general dental services contract instead of a personal dental services agreement where the pilot scheme provider—\n(a) is entitled to enter into a personal dental services agreement with the Primary Care Trust under article 14;\n(b) is on 31st March 2006, or if earlier, on the date on which the contract is to be signed, providing services that are equivalent to mandatory services under the pilot scheme agreement; and\n(c) wishes to enter into a general dental services contract instead of a personal dental services agreement.\n(2) Where a pilot scheme provider enters into a general dental services contract under paragraph (1), it shall have no entitlement to enter into a personal dental services agreement with the Primary Care Trust under article 14.\n(3) Where the contracting parties are unable to agree on a particular term of the contract, article 4(6) and (7) shall apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 28M is inserted into the 1977 Act by section 172 of the 2003 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3435/article/6",
    "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."
}