{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3361",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Dental Services Contracts) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Duration",
  "text": "(1) Except in the circumstances specified in paragraph (2), a contract must provide for it to subsist until it is terminated in accordance with the terms of the contract or the general law.\n(2) The circumstances referred to in paragraph (1) are that NHS England has terminated the contract of another provider of primary dental services, and as a result of that termination, it wishes to enter into a temporary contract for a period specified in the contract for the provision of services.\n(3) Where a contract is entered into pursuant to paragraph (2)—\n(a) paragraph 66 (termination by the contractor) of Schedule 3 shall not apply to the contract; and\n(b) the parties to the temporary contract may include such terms as to termination by notice as they may agree.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3361/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:21.795162+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."
}