C2Part IIC3C4General Medical, General Dental, General Ophthalmic, and Pharmaceutical Services

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2

Pt. II modified by S.I. 1982/288, Sch. 2 para. 1 Table

C3

Pt. II restricted (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 46, s. 12; S.I. 1998/631, art. 2(a), Sch. 1

C4

Pt. II power to modify conferred (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 46, s. 15(2)(a); S.I. 1998/631, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1

Pt. II power to apply conferred (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 46, s. 15(2)(b); S.I. 1998/631, art. 2(1)(b), Sch. 1

General dental services

36C1Regulations as to s. 35.

F11

Regulations may provide as to the arrangements to be made under section 35 above, and shall include provision—

F2a

for the preparation and publication by each Primary Care Trust and by each Health Authority of a list of dental practitioners and dental corporations who undertake to provide general dental services for persons in the area of the Primary Care Trust or Health Authority;

b

for conferring a right, subject to F3F4subsections F5(2) to (7)below F6to any provision made under section 43C below and to the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to the disqualification of practitioners F7and to section 8 of the Health and Medicines Act 1988 and regulations under that section, on any dental practitioner F8or dental corporation, who wishes to be included in any such list, to be so included;

F9c

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d

for the removal from the list of dental practitioners F10and dental corporations undertaking to provide general dental services for persons in any F11area of the name of any one in whose case it has been determined in such manner as may be prescribed that he has never provided, or has ceased to provide, such general dental services for persons in that F11area.

F121A

The regulations may include provision as to—

a

information which must be supplied to a F13Primary Care Trust or Health Authority by, or by arrangement with, a dental practitioner or dental corporation included or seeking inclusion in a list referred to in subsection (1)(a); and

b

the supply to a F13Primary Care Trust or Health Authority—

i

by a dental practitioner who is included, or seeking inclusion, in such a list, or

ii

by a director of a dental corporation included, or seeking inclusion, in such a list,

of a criminal conviction certificate under section 112 of the Police Act 1997 (c. 50), a criminal record certificate under section 113 of that Act or an enhanced criminal record certificate under section 115 of that Act.

F141B

The regulations may include provision as to the making of declarations about—

a

financial interests;

b

gifts above a prescribed value; and

c

other benefits received.

1C

Before making regulations by virtue of subsection (1B), the Secretary of State must consult such organisations as he thinks fit appearing to him to represent dental practitioners and dental corporations providing general dental services.

F152

No dental practitioner who is a national of a member State and is registered by virtue of a qualification granted in a member State shall be entitled to have his name included in the list kept by any F16Primary Care Trust orF17Health Authority unless he satisfies F17the F16Primary Care Trust or Health Authority that he has that knowledge of English which, in the interests of himself and his patients, is necessary for the provision of general dental services in the F18area of the Primary Care Trust or Health Authority .

F193

Regulations may make the exercise of the right conferred by virtue of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) above 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 F8or dental corporation on such a list as is referred to in paragraph (a) of that subsection.

F204

The provision which may be made by regulations under subsection (3) includes, in particular, provision in relation to grounds on which a F21Primary Care Trust or Health Authority may, or must, refuse to include a dental practitioner or a dental corporation in a list referred to in subsection (1)(a) (including grounds corresponding to the conditions referred to in section 49F(2), (3) and (4) as read with section 49H below).

5

Those regulations may make provision in relation to criteria to be applied in making decisions under the regulations.

6

If those regulations provide that a F22Primary Care Trust or Health Authority may refuse to include a dental practitioner or dental corporation in such a list, they must also provide for an appeal (by way of redetermination) to the FHSAA against the F23decision of the Primary Care Trust or of the Health Authority .

7

Regulations may provide for grounds on which a F24Primary Care Trust or Health Authority may defer a decision whether or not to grant an application for inclusion in a list referred to in subsection (1)(a).

8

Regulations may make provision as to the disclosure by a F25Primary Care Trust or Health Authority, to prescribed persons or persons of prescribed descriptions, of information of a prescribed description about dental practitioners and dental corporations seeking inclusion in such a list, and refusals by the F26Primary Care Trust or Health Authority to include them.