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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-regulations-1992/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-regulations-1992/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Removal from dental list on grounds of age",
  "text": "(1) An FHSA shall, on each of the dates specified in column (1) of the Table below, remove from the dental list the name of any dentist included in the list who has, on or before that date, attained the age specified in column (2) of the Table in relation to that date.\nTable\n(1)\n(2)\n1st April 1992\nthe age of 70\n1st April 1993\nthe age of 69\n1st April 1994\nthe age of 68\n1st April 1995\nthe age of 67\n1st April 1996\nthe age of 66\n1st April 1997\nthe age of 65\n(2) An FHSA shall, on 1st April in 1998 and in each successive year thereafter, remove from the dental list the name of any dentist included in the list who has attained the age of 65 during the period of 12 months ending on 1st April in that year.\n(3) An FHSA shall give to any dentist whose name is to be removed from the dental list in accordance with paragraph (1) or (2)—\n(a) notice in writing to that effect not less than 12 months nor more than 13 months before the date on which his name is to be removed; and\n(b) a further such notice not less than 3 months nor more than 4 months before that date;\nbut failure to give notice to any dentist as required by sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of this paragraph shall not prevent the removal of that dentist’s name from the dental list in accordance with paragraph (1) or (2).\n(4) An FHSA shall, no later than 7 days after the removal in accordance with paragraph (1) or (2) of the name of any dentist from the dental list, notify the Board in writing of the name, address and date of birth of the dentist in question and of the number by which his arrangement with the FHSA is identified.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev in pt (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/250",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Dental Services Supplementary List) and (General Dental Services) Amendment Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/250",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Dental Services Supplementary List) and (General Dental Services) Amendment Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (W)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2003/138",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Dental Services) and (Dental Charges) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt (W)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2003/138",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Dental Services) and (Dental Charges) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2469",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/661/regulation/9",
    "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."
}