Part IPilot Schemes for Primary Care
General
17The Dental Practice Boards
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Regulations may confer such powers or impose such duties on the Board, in relation to pilot schemes under which personal dental services are provided, as may be prescribed.
2
The regulations may, in particular, make any of the following kinds of provision.
3
They may authorise or require the Board—
a
to perform on behalf of an authority functions of a prescribed description (including functions relating to remuneration) which have been delegated to the Board by the authority in accordance with a power conferred by the regulations;
b
to conduct or commission surveys or other research;
c
to carry on such other activities as may be prescribed.
4
They may provide that functions conferred by the regulations are only to be exercised by the Board in accordance with directions of the Secretary of State.
5
They may enable the Board to direct a dental practitioner to submit to the Board, in relation to treatment or a description of treatment that he has carried out or contemplates carrying out, such information (including estimates, radiographs, models and other items) as may be prescribed.
6
In this section “the Board” means—
a
in relation to England and Wales, the Dental Practice Board; and
b
in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Dental Practice Board.