Part IV Restrictions on Practice of Dentistry and on Carrying on Business of Dentistry

Restrictions on carrying on the business of dentistry

44AF1Supplementary provisions relating to financial penalties under sections 43B and 44

Schedule 3 (proceedings before the Investigating Committee, the Interim Orders Committee and Practice Committees: dentists) applies to proceedings before the Professional Conduct Committee under section 43B or 44 with the following modifications—

a

references to proceedings under Part 3 of the Act shall be read as including proceedings under sections 43B and 44;

b

references to a Committee shall be read as references to the Professional Conduct Committee;

c

in paragraph 1—

i

omit sub-paragraph (1), and

ii

for sub-paragraph (2) substitute—

2

A “party” to proceedings means—

a

the body corporate;

b

any director or former director of the body corporate against whom the proceedings are brought; or

c

the Council.

d

in paragraph 2—

i

omit sub-paragraph (1)(b),

ii

in sub-paragraph (2)(a), for “the person to whose registration the proceedings relate” substitute “the body corporate and any director or former director of the body corporate on whom a financial penalty may be imposed”, and

iii

in sub-paragraph (2)(g), omit “the person (if any) making the allegation and”;

e

omit paragraph 5;

f

in paragraph 6(5), for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute—

a

where the body corporate’s principal office is in Scotland, the sheriff in whose sheriffdom that office is situated; and

g

omit paragraph 7.