The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992

Amendment of regulation 6 of the principal Regulations

5.  There are substituted for paragraph (5) of regulation 6 of the principal Regulations (removal from dental list) the following paragraphs:—

“(5) In calculating the period of 6 months referred to in paragraph (2) there shall be disregarded any period during which—

(i) the dentist was performing relevant service;

(ii) the dentist was on maternity leave; or

(iii) the dentist was unable to provide general dental services because of sickness.

(6) In this regulation—

(a) “relevant service” means—

(i) whole-time service in the armed forces of the Crown in a national emerg ency as volunteer or otherwise; or

(ii) compulsory whole-time service in those forces, including service resulting from any reserve liability; or

(iii) any equivalent service by a person liable for compulsory whole-time service in those forces; and

(b) “maternity leave” means the period of one year beginning with the date of confinement.

(7) Nothing in this regulation shall prejudice any right of a dentist to have his name included again in a dental list.”.