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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-amendment-regulations-1996/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-amendment-regulations-1996/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/704",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Dental Services) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese regulations further amend the National Health Service (General Dental Services) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/661) (“the 1992 Regulations”).\nPart I includes in the 1992 Regulations what was formerly regulation 19 of the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/664)(“the Service Committees and Tribunal Regulations”).\nPart II amends dentists' terms of service contained in Schedule 1 to the 1992 Regulations, to require dentists to establish and operate a complaints procedure within their practice.\nPart III makes various amendments consequential upon amendments to the Service Committees and Tribunal Regulations, and makes minor amendments to the terms of service in Schedule 1 regarding computerised estimate forms, information to be displayed in practice premises, and the correct name of the Northern Ireland equivalent of a Health Authority.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/704/note",
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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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