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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-amendment-regulations-1989/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1630",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Amendment Regulations 1989",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1974 (“the 1974 Regulations”) in which provision is made, amongst other things, for the withholding of remuneration by Family Practitioner Committees, at the direction of the Secretary of State, from dentists who have failed to comply with the terms of service for dentists who provide general dental services under the National Health Service Act 1977.\nThese Regulations amend, with effect from 1st October 1989, regulation 14(6) of the 1974 Regulations in relation to the composition of the dental advisory committee, which assists the Secretary of State in matters relating to the withholding of remuneration from such dentists, to enable any deputy of the Chief Dental Officer to be chairman of the dental advisory committee.\nIn addition, these Regulations amend with effect from 1st February 1990 regulation 2 of the 1974 Regulations by substituting a new definition of “dental officer” so as to include, for the purposes of regulation 18 of the 1974 Regulations (investigation of record keeping), a dental officer employed by the Dental Practice Board instead of a dentist in the service of the Department of Health.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1630/note",
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  "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."
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