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(1)It shall be the duty of every Health Board, in accordance with regulations, to make as respects their area arrangements with dental practitioners under which any person for whom a dental practitioner undertakes in accordance with the arrangements to provide dental treatment and appliances shall receive such treatment and appliances; and the services provided in accordance with those arrangements are in this Act referred to as " general dental services ".
(2)Regulations may make provision as to the arrangements to be made under subsection (1), and shall include provision—
(a)for the preparation and publication of lists of dental practitioners who undertake to provide general dental services;
(b)for conferring a right, subject to the provisions of this Part relating to the disqualification of persons providing services, on any dental practitioner who wishes to be included in any such list to be so included ;
(c)for conferring a right on any person to choose in accordance with the prescribed procedure the dental practitioner from whom he is to receive general dental services, subject to the consent of the practitioner so chosen;
(d)for the removal from the list of dental practitioners undertaking to provide general dental services for persons in any area of the name of a dental practitioner in whose case it has been determined in such manner as may be prescribed that he has never provided, or has ceased to provide, general dental services for persons in that area.
(3)The remuneration to be paid under arrangements made under this section to a dental practitioner who provides general dental services elsewhere than at a health centre shall not, except in special circumstances, consist wholly or mainly of a fixed salary.
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