These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1996 (“the 1996 Regulations”), which make arrangements under which dentists provide general dental services under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (“the Act”).
These Regulations make amendments to regulations 4 and 13, and paragraph 35 of Schedule 1 to, the 1996 Regulations. These amendments are consequential upon the National Health Service (Tribunal) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (“the 2004 Regulations”) and amendments made to the Act by the Health Act 1999 (“the 1999 Act”) relating to the NHS Tribunal and the disqualification of practitioners providing services under Part II of the Act.
In particular, these Regulations–
clarify that a Health Board or primary care NHS trust shall not include in the dental list, persons who may not be added to that list, by virtue of the provisions of regulation 26 of the 2004 Regulations, until proceedings in that case are finally concluded (regulation 2(2)); and
replace references to provisions of the Act, with references to provisions of the Act as amended by the 1999 Act (regulation 2(3) and (4)).