The Health and Personal Social Services(Northern Ireland) Order 1991

Limitations on right to be included on list of dental practitioners providing general dental services

30.—(1) Article 61 of the principal Order (arrangements for general dental services) shall be amended in accordance with this Article.

(2) In paragraph (2)(b) (regulations to include provision conferring a right, subject to certain qualifications, to be entered on a list of dental practitioners providing general dental services) for the words “paragraph (2A)” there shall be substituted “paragraphs (2A) and (2AA)”.

(3) After paragraph (2A) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(2AA) Regulations may make the exercise of the right conferred by virtue of sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (2) subject to any provision made by or under the regulations, and, in such cases as may be prescribed, may confer a right of appeal to a prescribed body in respect of a refusal to include a dental practitioner on such a list as is referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of that paragraph..