Part I

Organisation

Co-operation and assistance

Lists of persons performing personal dental services
17F
1
Regulations may provide that a person may not perform personal dental services under section 17C arrangements or a pilot scheme with a Health Board unless his name is included in a list maintained under the regulations by the Board.
2
Regulations under subsection (1) may make provision in relation to such lists and in particular as to—
a
the preparation, maintenance and publication of a list;
b
eligibility for inclusion in a list;
c
applications for inclusion (including provision for the procedure for applications to be made and dealt with and the documents to be supplied on application);
d
the grounds on which an application for inclusion must be granted or refused;
e
requirements with which a person included in a list must comply (including requirements as to standards of performance and patient care and as to declarations, consents or undertakings);
f
suspension or removal from a list (including the grounds for and consequences of suspension or removal);
g
circumstances in which a person included in a list may not withdraw from it;
h
payments to be made by a Health Board in respect of a person suspended from a list (including provision for the amount of, or the method of calculating, the payment to be determined by the Scottish Ministers);
i
criteria to be applied in making decisions under the regulations;
j
disclosure of information about applicants for inclusion, refusals of applications, or suspensions, removals or references to the Tribunal, including in particular the disclosure of information about any such matter by a Health Board to the Scottish Ministers and by the Scottish Ministers to a Health Board.
Pt. 1 applied (7.12.2019) by The Public Health Scotland Order 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/336), art. 1(2), sch. 1 Pt. 1 (with art. 4(4)(5))
This is a new instance of s. 17F, inserted by Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 13), ss. 18, 43(3). A separate instance of s. 17F was inserted (1.4.1998) by National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), s. 23(2); S.I. 1998/631, art. 2(a), Sch. 1, and repealed (1.4.2004) by Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 1), ss. 8, 9(1), Sch. para. 1(5); S.S.I. 2004/58, art. 2(3)