Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1996 (S.I.1996/77) (“the principal Regulations”), which provide for arrangements under which dentists provide general dental services as part of the National Health Service in Scotland.
These regulations amend the principal Regulations to include reference, where appropriate, to primary care NHS trusts to which responsibility for certain functions mentioned in Part II of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29) are delegated by Health Boards.
The Regulations also correct regulation 2(1A) of the principal Regulations so as to refer to Health Board, rather than “Board” (regulation 3(b)).