C3Part IIC4C5General Medical, General Dental, General Ophthalmic, and Pharmaceutical Services

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C3

Pt. II modified by S.I. 1982/288, Sch. 2 para. 1 Table

C4

Pt. II restricted (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 46, s. 12; S.I. 1998/631, art. 2(a), Sch. 1

C5

Pt. II power to modify conferred (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 46, s. 15(2)(a); S.I. 1998/631, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1

Pt. II power to apply conferred (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 46, s. 15(2)(b); S.I. 1998/631, art. 2(1)(b), Sch. 1

General dental services

C135 Arrangements for general dental services.

F1C21

It is the duty F2of every Primary Care Trust and of every F3Health Authority, in accordance with regulations, to make as respects their F4area arrangements with dental practitioners F5or dental corporations under which any person in the F4area for whom a dental practitioner F5or dental corporation undertakes in accordance with the arrangements to provide dental treatment and appliances shall receive such treatment and appliances.

1A

The services so provided are referred to in this Act as general dental services.

2

The remuneration to be paid under such arrangements to a dental practitioner who F6, or dental corporation which, provides general dental services elsewhere than at a health centre shall not consist wholly or mainly of a fixed salary F7(or, in the case of a dental corporation, a fixed rate of remuneration) unless either—

a

the remuneration is paid in pursuance of arrangements made under section 56 below, or

b

the services are provided in prescribed circumstances and the practitioner F8or corporation consents,

and it shall be the Secretary of State’s duty, before he prescribes any circumstances for the purposes of paragraph (b), to consult such organisations as appear to him to be representative of the dental profession.

F93

Where the registration of a dental practitioner in the dentists register is suspended—

a

by an order under F10section 32 of the M1Dentists Act 1984 (interim suspension); or

b

by a direction or F11an order of the Health Committee under that Act (health cases),

the suspension shall not terminate any arrangements made with him for the provision of general dental services, but he shall not provide such services in person during the suspension.

4

Regulations may provide for the making of payments in consequence of suspension to a dental practitioner whose registration is so suspended.

F125

In this Act, “dental corporation” means a body corporate which carries on the business of dentistry (within the meaning of section 40 of the Dentists Act 1984 (c. 24)).