1. These Regulations may be cited as the Scottish Dental Practice Board Amendment Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st October 1999.
2. In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means The Scottish Dental Practice Board Regulations 1997(1).
3. In regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (interpretation)–
(a)after the definition of “estimate” there is inserted–
““Health Board” means a Health Board constituted under section 2 of the Act;”;
(b)after the definition of “member” there is inserted–
““primary care NHS trust” means an NHS trust to which certain functions referred to in section 12AA(a) of the Act are delegated by the Health Board.”(2).
4. In regulation 8 of the principal Regulations (termination of tenure of office) in paragraph (3)(a) for the words “if he has failed to attend a meeting of the Board in” there is inserted “if he has been absent from all meetings of the Board for”.
5. In regulation 10 of the principal Regulations (functions)–
(a)in paragraph (2) for the words “imposed on it by these Regulations” there is substituted –
“imposed on it by the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1996”(3);
(b)after paragraph (2) there is inserted–
“(3) The Board shall provide such information as a Health Board or primary care NHS trust may require of it.”.
SUSAN C DEACON
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
3rd September 1999