The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2007

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 422

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2007

Made

6th September 2007

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

7th September 2007

Coming into force

1st October 2007

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 25(2), 105(7) and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2007 and come into force on 1st October 2007.

Amendment of the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1996

2.—(1) The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1996(2) are amended as follows.

(2) In Part II of Schedule 4 (care and treatment)(3) for “£280”, at each place where it occurs, substitute “£350”.

SHONA ROBISON

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

6th September 2007

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1996 (“the Regulations”), which make provisions as to the arrangements under which dentists provide general dental services under the National Health Service in Scotland.

Regulation 2(2) amends Part II of Schedule 4 to the Regulations to increase from £280 to £350 the amount specified as the maximum cost, or likely cost, of care and treatment which a dentist may undertake without seeking the prior approval of the Scottish Dental Practice Board.

(1)

1978 c. 29. Section 25(2) was extended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 17 and amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 40(2) and Schedule 9, paragraph 19(6), by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), Schedule 2, paragraph 43 and Schedule 3 and by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), section 56(3); section 105(7), which contains provisions relevant to the making of these Regulations, was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Schedule 6, paragraph 5 and Schedule 7 and by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 9, paragraph 24; section 108(1) contains definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

(2)

S.I. 1996/177.

(3)

Part II of Schedule 4 was amended by S.I. 1998/1663 and S.S.I. 2001/57, 2002/192 and 2003/422.