The General Dental Services, Personal Dental Services and Abolition of the Dental Practice Board Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2006

Remuneration of pilot scheme providers

25.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), claims for remuneration under the terms of a pilot scheme agreement may still be made and acceded to in accordance with a pilot scheme agreement, where a pilot scheme provider is entitled to a payment—

(a) under the agreement; or

(b) as a consequence of the termination of the agreement,

and the claim is made or deemed to have been made within any period stipulated in the pilot scheme agreement as being the period during which a claim for payment is to be made.

(2) In a case where no period is specified for the making of a claim for payment in the pilot scheme agreement or a claim is made outside the specified period, the Primary Care Trust with which the pilot scheme provider was a party to the agreement (or, where appropriate, the NHS Business Services Authority acting on its behalf) may agree to determine such claims for a period up to six months from the date on which the circumstances which gave rise to the claim first arose.

(3) This article is without prejudice to any arrangements for the recovery of dental charges set out in directions under sections 28E(3A) and 28N of the 1977 Act.