{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1993/regulation-24",
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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/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Part—\n(a) “claimant” means a person claiming to be entitled to, or receiving, payments;\n“erasure” means the erasure of a person's name from the register;\n“fees” does not include remuneration by way of salary;\n“immediate suspension” means suspension by virtue of an order under section 30(3) of the Dentists Act except suspension which is terminated by the court under section 30(6) of that Act;\n“interim suspension order” means an order under section 32 of the Dentists Act;\n“payment” means a payment under this Part;\n“register” means the register kept under section 14 of the Dentists Act and “registration” means registration in that register;\n“suspension date” means the date on which suspension of a person's registration takes effect;\n(b) a reference to a direction or an order of the Health Committee is to a direction or an order of that Committee under the Dentists Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1993/326/regulation/24",
    "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."
}