{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-contracts-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-44.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/44",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Entry and inspection by NHS England",
  "text": "(1) Subject to—\n(a) the conditions in sub-paragraph (2); and\n(b) sub-paragraph (3),\nthe contractor shall allow persons authorised in writing by NHS England to enter and inspect the practice premises at any reasonable time.\n(2) The conditions referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are that—\n(a) reasonable notice of the intended entry has been given;\n(b) written evidence of the authority of the person seeking entry is produced to the contractor on request; and\n(c) entry is not made to any premises or part of the premises used as residential accommodation without the consent of the resident.\n(3) Where the contractor is providing services under the contract in a secure and detained estate, the contractor shall not be obliged to comply with sub-paragraph (1), or paragraph... 46, if—\n(a) the contractor has used its best endeavours to allow NHS England ...or the Care Quality Commission (as the case may be) to enter and inspect the practice premises; but\n(b) entry and inspection has been prevented by the ... authorities for the secure and detained estate despite the contractor's best endeavours.\n(4) In this paragraph “practice premises” includes a mobile surgery.",
  "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": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 44(3) 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), 4(2)(c)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 44(3) omitted (1.4.2008) by virtue of The Local Involvement Networks Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/528), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 9(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 44(3)(a) omitted (1.4.2008) by virtue of The Local Involvement Networks Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/528), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 9(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 44(3)(a) substituted (1.4.2009) by The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No.9, Consequential Amendments and Transitory, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/462), art. 1(4), Sch. 5 para. 17(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 para. 44(3)(b) omitted (23.6.2026) by virtue of The National Health Service (Primary Dental Services and Dental Charges) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/554), regs. 1(2), 4(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 44(3)(b) inserted (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), 4(4)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3361/schedule/3/paragraph/44",
    "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."
}