{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-40.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": "schedule/3/paragraph/40",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Notification to NHS England",
  "text": "(1) In addition to any requirements of notification elsewhere in the Regulations, the contractor shall notify NHS England in writing, as soon as reasonably practicable, of—\n(a) any serious incident that in the reasonable opinion of the contractor affects or is likely to affect the contractor's performance of its obligations under the contract; or\n(b) any circumstances which give rise to NHS England’s right to terminate the contract under paragraph 70 or 71(1).\n(2) The contractor shall, unless it is impracticable for it to do so, notify NHS England in writing within 28 days of any occurrence requiring a change in the information about it published by NHS England in accordance with regulations made under section 16CA(3) of the Act (primary dental services).\n(3) The contractor shall give notice in writing to NHS England when a dental practitioner who is performing or will perform services under the contract (as the case may be)—\n(a) leaves the contractor, and the date upon which he left; or\n(b) is employed or engaged by the contractor,\nwhich shall include the name of the dental practitioner who has left, or who has been employed or engaged, together with his professional registration number.",
  "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 16CA was inserted into the Act by section 170 of the 2003 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3361/schedule/3/paragraph/40",
    "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."
}