Part III The Dental Profession
F2Professional training and development requirements
34AF1 Professional training and development requirements
1
The Council shall make rules requiring registered dentists to undertake professional training and development of descriptions specified in the rules.
2
If it appears to the registrar that a registered dentist has failed to comply with the requirements of rules made under subsection (1) above, the registrar may erase the dentist’s name from the register.
3
The Council shall make rules as to the procedures to be followed before the registrar may erase a registered dentist’s name from the register under this section.
4
Rules made under subsection (3) above shall provide for an appeal to the Continuing Professional Development Committee from a decision of the registrar to erase a registered dentist’s name from the register.
5
Schedule 3A (which provides for the procedures before the Continuing Professional Development Committee) shall apply in relation to such an appeal.
6
Rules made under subsections (1) and (3) above shall not come into force until approved by order of the Privy Council.
7
The registrar shall not erase a person’s name from the register under this section—
a
until the end of the period during which he may appeal to the Continuing Professional Development Committee by virtue of rules made under subsection (3) above, or
b
if he does appeal to that Committee, until the appeal process (including any appeal F3under section 29 above to the relevant court) has been exhausted.
8
The registrar shall serve on a registered dentist a notice of his decision to erase him from the register under this section and the reasons for it.
Ss. 34A, 34B and preceding cross-heading inserted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by S.I. 2001/3926, art. 8