National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990

24 Limitations on right to be included on list of dental practitioners

(1) Section 36 of the principal Act (regulations as to arrangements for general dental services) shall be amended in accordance with this section.

(2) In subsection (1)(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 “subsection (2)” there shall be substituted “subsections (2) and (3)”.

(3) At the end of the section there shall be added the following subsection—

“(3) 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 on such a list as is referred to in paragraph (a) of that subsection.”