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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-dental-charges-regulations-1989/schedule-4/paragraph-2",
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  "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",
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  "number": "2",
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  "text": "The Family Practitioner Committee shall make such inquiry into the matter referred as it thinks fit and if either–\n(a) in its opinion the circumstances so require; or\n(b) the person supplied or (if he is under 16 years of age) the person in charge of him so requires,\nthe inquiry shall take the form of an oral hearing by a sub-committee of the Family Practitioner Committee appointed for the purpose which shall report to the Family Practitioner Committee on the matter.",
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      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2221",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Dental Charges) Amendment Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2221",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Dental Charges) Amendment Regulations 1998"
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    {
      "type": "am (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2353",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Miscellaneous Dental Charges Amendments) Regulations 2002"
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  "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."
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