Amendment of regulation 9 of the principal Regulations

2.  Regulation 9 of the principal Regulations (removal from dental list on grounds of age) shall be amended as follows –

(a) paragraph (1) is revoked;

(b) for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following –

(2) A Board shall, on 1st April 2003 and in each successive year thereafter, remove from the dental list the name of any dentist included in that list who has attained the age of 70 during the period of 12 months ending on 1st April in that year; and

(c) in paragraphs (3) and (4) the expression “(1) or” after the word “paragraph”, in each of the three places where it occurs, shall be deleted.