The General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) Order 2006

Functions in respect of general dental services

38.  –

(1) Subject to paragraph (3), the functions of the Board under the 1992 Regulations which are specified in paragraph (2) will be exercisable by the NHS Business Services Authority in respect of general dental services provided before 1 April 2006.

(2) The specified functions referred to in paragraph (1) are—

(a) the approval and making of payments under regulation 20;

(b) the recovery of overpayments under regulation 22;

(c) the making of any payments under regulation 26(7);

(d) the consideration of overpayments, notification of overpayments and recovery of such overpayments under regulation 28;

(e) the payments to dentists suspended by Local Health Boards under regulation 28B;

(f) complying with the request from the Local Health Board for a written statement in accordance with regulation 30A(5) of the 1992 Regulations and any steps in the appeal which the Board may have taken before 1 April 2006; and

(g) the authority to request any records, forms, radiographs, photographs and study models under paragraph 25(3) of Schedule 1 to the 1992 Regulations.

(3) Notwithstanding the revocation of the 1992 Regulations, for the purposes of the NHS Business Services Authority exercising the functions of the Board, the provisions specified in paragraph (2) will continue to have effect as on 31 March 2006 and references to the Board in those provisions will be read as a reference to the NHS Business Services Authority.