{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-42.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/42",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Notice provisions specific to a contract with two or more individuals practising in partnership",
  "text": "(1) A contractor which is a partnership shall give notice in writing to NHS England forthwith when—\n(a) a partner leaves or informs his partners that he intends to leave the partnership, and the date upon which he left or will leave the partnership; or\n(b) a new partner joins the partnership.\n(2) A notice under sub-paragraph (1)(b) shall—\n(a) state the date that the new partner joined the partnership;\n(b) confirm that the new partner is a dental practitioner, or that he satisfies the conditions specified in section 28M(2)(b) of the Act;\n(c) confirm that the new partner meets the conditions imposed by regulation 4 (general conditions relating to all contracts); and\n(d) state whether the new partner is a general or a limited partner.",
  "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/schedule/3/paragraph/42",
    "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."
}