National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1998
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1998/1663 |
1998 No. 1663 (S. 91)
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, SCOTLAND
The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1998
Made 3rd July 1998
Laid before Parliament 10th July 1998
Coming into force 1st August 1998
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 25(1) and (2), 105(7) and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 19781and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st August 1998.
Amendment of the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1996
2. The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 19962shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
Amendment of regulation 2
3. In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1);
(a) for the definition of “dental officer” there shall be substituted–
““dental officer” means a dentist in the service of the Board;”.
(b) in the appropriate alphabetical positions there shall be inserted–
““the 1997 Act” means the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 19973;
“personal dental services” has the meaning given in section 1(8) of the 1997 Act;
“pilot scheme” has the meaning given in section 1(1) of the 1997 Act;”.
Amendment of regulation 4
4. In regulation 4 (dental list), in paragraph (2)(b)–
(a) at the end of head (i), “and” shall be omitted; and
(b) at the end of head (ii), there shall be inserted–
“; and
(iii)
(iii) whether the dentist is indemnified against claims relating to the practice of dentistry in relation to dentistry performed by the dentist himself, and by any assistant, deputy and dental auxiliary whose work he directs.”.
Amendment of regulation 6
5. In regulation 6 (applications for vocational training numbers) in paragraph (3), for sub-paragraph (d) there shall be substituted–
“(d)
“(d) he has practised in primary dental care in either the Community Dental Services or the armed forces of the Crown for a period amounting in aggregate to not less than four years full-time employment (or part-time employment of equivalent duration), and has so practised for not less than four months in full-time employment (or part-time employment of equivalent duration) within the period of four years ending with the date of his application under regulation 6(1).”.
Amendment of Schedule 1
6.—(1) Schedule 1 (terms of service for dentists) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph 11 (termination of a continuing care arrangement or a capitation arrangement)–
(a)
(a) in sub-paragraph (1), for “sub-paragraph (4)” there shall be substituted “sub-paragraphs (4) and (7) and paragraph 11A”;
(b)
(b) in sub-paragraph (4), at the beginning there shall be inserted “Subject to sub-paragraph (7) and paragraph 11A,”;
(c)
(c) after sub-paragraph (6) there shall be inserted–
“7 Where–
(a) under section 5 of the 1997 Act the Secretary of State has approved a proposal for a pilot scheme under which personal dental services are to be provided, or such a proposal has been subsequently varied with the agreement of the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, in a manner authorised by directions given by the Secretary of State under section 6 of the Act; and
(b) under the proposal (or the varied proposal) a dentist named in it as a performer of...
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