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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-dental-charges-scotland-amendment-regulations-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/472",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Dental Charges) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-dental-charges-scotland-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the National Health Service (Dental Charges) (Scotland) Regulations 1989 (“the principal Regulations”), which provide for the making and recovery of charges for dental appliances supplied or repaired under the National Health Service in Scotland, and for other dental treatment provided as part of NHS general dental services.\nRegulation 2 amends the principal Regulations to increase from £300 to £325 the maximum contribution which a patient may be required to make towards the aggregate cost of dental treatment and appliances under Part II of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, where the contract or arrangement leading to the provision of such treatment and the supply of such appliances is made on or after 1st April 1996.",
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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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