{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-regulations-1992/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-regulations-1992/regulation-18.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/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Exercise of choice of dentists in certain cases",
  "text": "(1) An application to a dentist for general dental services shall be made—\n(a) on behalf of any person under the age of 16, by either parent, or in the absence of both parents, the guardian or other person who has the care of the child;\n(b) on behalf of any other person who is incapable of making such an application, by a relative or any person who has the care of such person; and\n(c) on behalf of any person under the age of 18—\n(i) in the care of an authority to whose care he has been committed under the provisions of the Children Act 1989, by a person duly authorised by that authority;\n(ii) in the care of a voluntary organisation by that organisation or a person duly authorised by them;\n(d) on behalf of any person detained in a prison or a young offender institution, by the governor or, in the case of a contracted out prison within the meaning of section 84 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991, the director or the controller, as the case may be.\n(2) An application under paragraph (1) may not be made by the dentist to whom the application is made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1991 c. 53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/661/regulation/18",
    "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."
}