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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-dental-charges-regulations-1989/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-dental-charges-regulations-1989/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/394",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Dental Charges) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-dental-charges-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Discontinuation of treatment – general dental services",
  "text": "A dental practitioner providing general dental services may decline–\n(a) to begin treatment; or\n(b) where treatment has begun, to continue with it,\nuntil he or the Family Practitioner Committee has received payment of the amount of any charge payable to him or it in accordance with these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2221",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Dental Charges) Amendment Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2353",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Miscellaneous Dental Charges Amendments) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/394/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:48:01.057082+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."
}