The European Primary and Specialist Dental Qualifications Regulations 1998

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Eligible specialistsU.K.

9.—[F1(1) A person is an eligible specialist for the purposes of regulation 8(2)(b) if—

F2(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)he holds a [F3relevant European] specialist dental qualification (as specified in regulation 10).]

(2) [F4[F5A] person] is also an eligible specialist for the purposes of [F6regulation 8(2)(b)] if he does not fall within paragraph (1), but—

(a)he has specialist dental qualifications awarded outside the United Kingdom in orthodontics or (as the case may be) oral surgery, and satisfies the GDC that those qualifications are equivalent to a CCST in the specialty in question; or

(b)he has knowledge of, and experience in, orthodontics or (as the case may be) oral surgery derived from academic or research work, and satisifies the GDC that that knowledge and experience is equivalent to the knowledge and experience which he might reasonably be expected to have acquired if he had undertaken the training required for the award of a CCST.

F7(2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F8(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) A person is also an eligible specialist in oral surgery for the purposes of [F9regulation 8(2)(b)] if he is an oral and maxillo-facial surgeon and his name is entered in the specialist register kept by the General Medical Council M1 in respect of that specialty M2 and—

F10(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)F11... he satisfies the GDC that his training in oral and maxillo-facial surgery included elements which taken together are equivalent to the training required for the award of a CCST in oral surgery.

F12(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F12(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F12(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1Reg. 9(1) substituted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 141(a)

F2Reg. 9(1)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/593), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 32(7)(a)(i) (with reg. 12A, Sch. 3 Pt. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1394, regs. 4, 11(4)-(10)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)