{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-primary-care-northern-ireland-order-1997/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-primary-care-northern-ireland-order-1997/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1997/1177",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Services (Primary Care) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-primary-care-northern-ireland-order-1997",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Provision of personal dental services under a pilot scheme",
  "text": "(1) This Article applies to any pilot scheme under which personal dental services are provided.\n(2) An agreement which constitutes, or is one of the agreements which together constitute, a pilot scheme may be made by the Department only with one or more of the following—\n(a) an HSC trust;\n(b) a dental practitioner whose name is included in a dental list;\n(c) an HSC employee or a pilot scheme employee;\n(d) a qualifying body;\n(e) an individual who is providing personal dental services under that or another pilot scheme.\n(3) In this Article—\n“dental list” means a list prepared in accordance with regulations under Article 61(2)(a) of the 1972 Order;\n“ HSC employee” means an individual who, in connection with the provision of health care, is employed by—\n(a) an HSC trust;\n(b) a dental practitioner whose name is included in a dental list; or\n(c) a dental practitioner who is providing personal dental services in accordance with a pilot scheme;\n“pilot scheme employee” means an individual who, in connection with the provision of personal dental services in accordance with a pilot scheme, is employed by an individual providing those services;\n“qualifying body” means—\n(a) a body corporate which, in accordance with the provisions of Part IV of the 1984 c. 24. Dentists Act 1984, is entitled to carry on the business of dentistry; or\n(b) a company which is limited by shares all of which are legally and beneficially owned by persons falling within sub-paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (e) of paragraph (2).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 5(2) substituted (1.4.2022) by Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 3), s. 8(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 176; S.R. 2022/102, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Order substituted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), ss. 32, 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 1(1)(d) (with Sch. 6 para. 1(3)); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Order substituted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), ss. 32, 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 1(1)(f) (with Sch. 6 para. 1(3)); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Order substituted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), ss. 32, 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 1(1)(b) (with Sch. 6 para. 1(3)); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1997/1177/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:24.210517+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."
}