{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-dental-charges-regulations-2005/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-dental-charges-regulations-2005/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3477",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Dental Charges) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-dental-charges-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Charges for the provision of dental services",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, a charge of the amount provided for in, and calculated in accordance with, regulation 4 or 12A(2) may be made and recovered in respect of—\n(a) the provision of relevant primary dental services; and\n(b) the supply of dental appliances under the Act otherwise than as part of relevant primary dental services.\n(2) No charge shall be made and recovered under paragraph (1) in respect of—\n(a) a supply under the Act, otherwise than as part of relevant primary dental services, of dental appliances 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;\n(b) a prisoner;\n(c) the provision of dental public health services;\n(d) the removal of sutures; or\n(e) the examination and assessment of a patient leading to—\n(i) the issue of a prescription,\n(ii) the repair of a dental appliance,\n(iii) the arrest of bleeding, or\n(iv) the removal of sutures,\nif, at the same time, no other treatment listed in Schedule 1, 1A, 2 , 4 or 4A is provided and no dental appliances listed in Schedule 3 are supplied.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) substituted (1.11.2015) by The National Health Service (Primary Dental Services) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1728), regs. 1(1), 20"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(2) inserted (1.4.2013) by The National Health Service (Primary Dental Services) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/364), regs. 1(1), 45(b) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2) substituted (23.6.2026) by The National Health Service (Primary Dental Services and Dental Charges) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/554), regs. 1(2), 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.4.2006, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3477/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:14.579296+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."
}