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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1993/regulation-23",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1993/326",
  "legislation_title": "General Dental Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1993",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Recovery of overpayments",
  "text": "(1) Where the Agency or the Board considers it has made a payment to a dentist owing to an error or in circumstances when it was not due, the Agency or the Board shall, except to the extent that the Department on the application of the Agency or the Board directs otherwise, draw that overpayment to the attention of the dentist and—\n(a) where he admits the overpayment; or\n(b) where he does not admit the overpayment but, the matter having been referred under regulation 4(2) of the Services Committee Regulations for investigation, the Agency, the Board or the Department on appeal, decides that there has been an overpayment,\nthe amount overpaid shall be recoverable either by deduction from the remuneration of the dentist or in some other manner.\n(2) Recovery of an overpayment under this regulation shall be without prejudice to the investigation of an alleged breach of the terms of service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "affecting": "nisr/2014/267",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care (Disciplinary Procedures) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014"
    },
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      "affecting": "nisr/2016/104",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care (Disciplinary Procedures) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016"
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      "affecting": "nisr/2007/292",
      "affecting_title": "General Dental Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007"
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      "affecting_title": "General Dental Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (General Dental and Ophthalmic Services Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2022/104",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (General Dental and Ophthalmic Services Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2022/104",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (General Dental and Ophthalmic Services Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1993/326/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:50:22.476228+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."
}