{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-42B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-42B.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/42B",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "42B",
  "heading": "Notice provisions specific to a contract with a limited liability partnership",
  "text": "(1) Where a limited liability partnership is a party to a contract it shall give notice to NHS England forthwith when—\n(a) it passes a resolution or a court of competent jurisdiction makes an order that the contractor be wound up;\n(b) circumstances arise which might entitle a creditor or a court to appoint a receiver, administrator or administrative receiver for the contractor;\n(c) circumstances arise which would enable the court to make a winding up order in respect of the contractor;\n(d) the contractor is unable to pay its debts within the meaning of section 123 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (definition of inability to pay debts); and\n(e) any membership changes are notified in accordance with section 9 of the Limited Liability Partnership Act 2000 (registration of membership changes) to the registrar (within the meaning of that Act) in relation to a person who becomes or ceases to be a member or designated member (within the meaning of that Act) and the notice must specify the date on which that person becomes or ceases to be a member or designated member (as the case may be).\n(2) A notice under sub-paragraph (e) must confirm—\n(a) that any new member joining the partnership meets the conditions imposed by regulation 4 (general prescribed conditions relating to all contracts); and\n(b) following the membership changes, the partnership continues to satisfy the conditions in section 102(2A) of the 2006 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 42B inserted (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), 19(23) (with Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "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/42B",
    "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."
}