# The National Health Service (Dental Charges) Regulations 1988, Regulation 2: Charges for supply of dental appliances


(1) Charges may be made and recovered in accordance with these Regulations in respect of the chargeable supply of a dental appliance described in column (1) of Part I of Schedule 1.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), to regulation 4 and to Part II of Schedule 1, the amount of the charge which may be made and recovered pursuant to paragraph (1) in respect of a dental appliance described in column (1) of Part I of Schedule 1 is the amount set out in relation to it in column (2) of that Part.
(3) Where a dental practitioner—
(a) has begun for a patient, as part of general dental services, a course of treatment which includes the supply of an appliance described in Schedule 1; and
(b) has referred that patient, for the supply of that appliance otherwise than as part of general dental services, to a health authority or to a hospital with which a health authority has made arrangements for the provision of services under the Act,
the amount of the charge for the supply of that appliance by or on behalf of the health authority shall be determined in accordance with Schedule 2.
(4) In this regulation “chargeable supply” means supply under the Act other than—
(a) a supply in respect of which no charge may be made by virtue of paragraph 2(3), (4) or (8) of Schedule 12 to the Act;
(b) a supply, otherwise than as part of general dental services, to a person who has undergone operative procedures affecting the mandible, the maxilla or the soft tissues of the mouth as part of treatment for invasive tumours;
(c) a supply, otherwise than as part of general dental services, of any obturator which is a denture.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/473/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-dental-charges-regulations-1988/regulation-2
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