{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-regulations-1992/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-regulations-1992/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/661",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Dental Services) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Application for services",
  "text": "(1) A person aged 18 or over may apply to any dentist whose name appears in any dental list for general dental services by way of—\n(a) care and treatment under a continuing care arrangement; or\n(b) treatment on referral; or\n(c) occasional treatment.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a person under the age of 18 may apply to any dentist whose name appears in any dental list for general dental services by way of—\n(a) care and treatment under a capitation arrangement; or\n(b) treatment on referral; or\n(c) occasional treatment.\n(3) A dentist may not enter into a capitation arrangement with a person during the month before he attains the age of 18.\n(4) A person under the age of 18 may apply to a dentist for general dental services by way of care and treatment under a continuing care arrangement at any time during the month before he attains the age of 18 provided that he is not immediately before that date receiving care and treatment under a capitation arrangement with that dentist.\n(5) A person who is receiving care and treatment under a capitation arrangement with a dentist may at any time after he attains the age of 17 apply for general dental services by way of care and treatment under a continuing care arrangement with that dentist from the date that he attains the age of 18.\n(6) Application under this regulation shall be made in person at the practice premises unless a person is unable to attend those premises owing to illness or any other reasonable cause.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/661/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:25:33.534779+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."
}