{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-charges-for-appliances-regulations-1974/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-charges-for-appliances-regulations-1974/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1974/284",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Charges for Appliances) Regulations 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-charges-for-appliances-regulations-1974",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Dental appliances",
  "text": "(1) Where an Authority—\n(a) supplies a person at his request with a dental appliance of a more expensive type than that which is clinically necessary for dental fitness, or\n(b) repairs such a dental appliance at a cost in excess of the cost of repairing a dental appliance which is so clinically necessary,\nthat Authority may make and recover from the person to or for whom such a dental appliance is supplied or repaired, a charge equal to the difference between the cost of supplying or repairing such a dental appliance and the cost of supplying or repairing such dental appliance as is clinically necessary.\n(2) Where an Authority supplies a dental appliance the person supplied or a person on his behalf, shall be liable to pay to the Authority the charges authorised by the Act of 1951 as varied by section 1 of the Act of 1961 or by regulations made under section 2 of the Act of 1961.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/394",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Dental Charges) Regulations 1989"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/284/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:49:14.063475+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."
}