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

Remuneration of Dentists

9.—(1) Notwithstanding the revocation of the 1992 Regulations, claims may still be made for payments under the SDR by a dental practitioner who may be entitled to such a payment (claims by virtue of article 38 are to be made to the NHS Business Services Authority), provided that the claim is made within any period stipulated in the SDR as being the period during which a claim for the payment is to be made.

(2) If a claim is made outside the stipulated period provided for in the SDR, the NHS Business Services Authority may extend that period for up to six months from the date on which the circumstances which gave rise to the claim first arose.

(3) Notwithstanding the revocation of the 1992 Regulations, as regards any claim for payment under the SDR which is made within the period stipulated in the SDR (whether before 1st April 2006 or by virtue of paragraph (1)) or within an extended period as provided for in paragraph (2), Parts 4, 5 and 5A of those Regulations shall continue to apply and have effect as they were in force on 31st March 2006 in respect of—

(a) the approval and making of the payments;

(b) the recovery of payments and overpayments; and

(c) the payments in consequence of suspension or successful appeal,

in relation to general dental services provided before 1st April 2006.