The National Health Service (General Dental Services) Amendment Regulations 1989

Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 613

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The National Health Service (General Dental Services) Amendment Regulations 1989

Made

6th April 1989

Laid before Parliament

10th April 1989

Coming into force

1st May 1989

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 35(1) and (4), 36(1) and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Dental Services) Amendment Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st May 1989.

Amendment of Regulations

2.  Regulation 26D of the National Health Service (General Dental Services) Regulations 1973(2) (amount and time of payments in consequence of suspension) shall be amended as follows:–

(a) in paragraph (1)(a)(i) for “£1935” there shall be substituted “£2,243”;

(b) in paragraph (1)(a)(ii) for “£967” there shall be substituted “£1,121”;

(c) in paragraph (1)(b)(i) for “£967” there shall be substituted “£1,121”;

(d) in paragraph (1)(b)(ii) for “£1935” there shall be substituted “£2,243”; and

(e) in paragraph (2) for “£107,103” in both places where it occurs there shall be substituted “£117,689”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

D. Mellor

Minister of State

Department of Health

6th April 1989

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Dental Services) Regulations 1973, which provide for the arrangements under which dentists provide general dental services under the National Health Service in England and Wales.

These Regulations increase the amounts of, and amounts used in calculating, payments to dentists during periods of suspension of their registration under the Dentists Act 1984 by an interim suspension order or a direction or order of the Health Committee.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 35(1) was substituted by the Family Practitioner Committees (Consequential Modifications) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/39), article 7(9). Section 35(4) was added by section 15(a) of the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41). For amendments to section 35(3), see paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the Dentists Act 1984 (c. 24). Section 36 was amended by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48), Schedule 3, paragraph 5. For the definition of “regulations” see section 128(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977.

(2)

S.I. 1973/1468; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1974/53, 1987/736 and 1512.