40 Limitations on right to be included on list of dental practitioners.S
(1)Section 25 of the 1978 Act (arrangements for general dental services) shall be amended in accordance with this section.
(2)In subsection (2)(b) (regulations to include provision conferring a right, subject to certain qualifications, to be entered on a list of dental practitioners providing general dental services) for the words “subsection (2A)” there shall be substituted “subsections (2A) and (2B)”.
(3)After subsection (2A) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(2B)Regulations may make the exercise of the right conferred by virtue of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) subject to any provision made by or under the regulations, and, in such cases as may be prescribed, may confer a right of appeal to a prescribed body in respect of a refusal to include a dental practitioner on such a list as is referred to in paragraph (a) of that subsection.”