{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-dental-charges-regulations-1989/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-dental-charges-regulations-1989/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Charges for other general dental services",
  "text": "(1) Subject to section 79(1)(b) and (c) of, and paragraph 3(4) of Schedule 12 to, the Act (which provide for circumstances in which no charge may be made) and to paragraph (2), the amount of the charge which may be made and recovered under section 79(1) of the Act in respect of services provided as part of general dental services is that provided for by regulation 4.\n(2) No charge shall be made and recovered under section 79(1) of the Act in respect of–\n(a) the supply of a dental appliance described in regulation 2(1);\n(b) a visit by a dental practitioner to a patient;\n(c) the opening by a dental practitioner of his surgery outside his normal opening hours in order to provide emergency treatment; or\n(d) the attendance at the surgery of a dental practitioner providing emergency treatment of a medical practitioner or of another dental practitioner, specifically with a view to the administration of a general anaesthetic in connection with emergency treatment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/2807",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Dental Charges) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2221",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Dental Charges) Amendment Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/1091",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Dental Charges) Amendment Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/1638",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "wsi/2001/1359",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Dental Services) and (Dental Charges) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (W)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2003/138",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Dental Services) and (Dental Charges) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/394/regulation/3",
    "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."
}