35 Arrangements for general dental services.E+W+S
[F1(1)It is the duty of every [F2Health Authority], in accordance with regulations, to make as respects their [F3area] arrangements with dental practitioners under which any person in the [F3area] for whom a dental practitioner 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 provides general dental services elsewhere than at a health centre shall not consist wholly or mainly of a fixed salary 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 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.
[F4(3)Where the registration of a dental practitioner in the dentists register is suspended—
(a)by an order under [F5section 32 of the M1Dentists Act 1984] (interim suspension); or
(b)by a direction or [F6an 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.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 34(1)(1A) substituted for s. 34(1) by S.I. 1985/39, art. 7(9)
F2Words in s. 35(1) substituted (28.6.1995 for specified purposes and otherwise 1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 8(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 24(a) (with Sch. 2 para. 6)
F3Words in s. 35(1) substituted (28.6.1995 for specified purposes and otherwise 1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 8(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 24(a) (with Sch. 2 para. 6)
F4S. 35(3)(4) added by Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41, SIF 113:3), s. 15(a)
F5Words substituted by Dentists Act 1984 (c. 24, SIF 83:1), s. 54(1), Sch. 5 para. 8(a)
F6Words substituted by Dentists Act 1984 (c. 24, SIF 83:1), s. 54(1), Sch. 5 para. 8(b)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 35 restricted (28.11.1997) by 1997 c. 46, s. 1(5)(b); S.I. 1997/2620, art. 2(2)
C2S. 35(1) modified (prosp.) by 1997 c. 46, ss. 41(3)(11), Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 79
Marginal Citations
M11984 c. 24(83:1).