{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005/regulation-17.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/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Units of dental activity",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 24C, the contract must specify the number of units of dental activity to be provided by the contractor—\n(a) where the contract begins on 1st April, in each financial year; or\n(b) where the contract begins on a date other than 1st April, in the remainder of the financial year in which the contract begins, and in each financial year thereafter.\n(2) Subject to regulation 24C, a contract must contain terms which have the effect of those specified in Parts 1 and 3 of Schedule 2 in relation to the calculation of the number of units of dental activity that the contractor will provide under the contract.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(1)(2) substituted (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), 12 (with Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(1) substituted (1.4.2016) by The National Health Service (Primary Dental Services Miscellaneous Amendments and Directions to the NHS Business Services Authority) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/298), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(2) substituted (1.4.2016) by The National Health Service (Primary Dental Services Miscellaneous Amendments and Directions to the NHS Business Services Authority) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/298), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(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), 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3361/regulation/17",
    "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."
}