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Amendments to the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974

2.—(1) Regulation 36 of the principal Regulations (amounts and time of payments in consequence of suspension) shall be amended as follows:–

(a)in paragraph (1)(a)(i) for “£2,243” there is substituted “£2,478”;

(b)in paragraph (1)(a)(ii) for “£1,121” there is substituted “£1,239”;

(c)in paragraph (1)(b)(i) for “£1,121” there is substituted “£1,239”;

(d)in paragraph (1)(b)(ii) for “£2,243” there is substituted “£2,478”; and

(e)in paragraph (2) for “£117,689” in both places where it occurs there is substituted “£126,755”.

(2) In sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 16 (Occasional treatment) of Schedule 1 (Terms of service for dentists) to the principal Regulations, for head (j) there shall be substituted the following:–

(j)palliative treatment that is immediately necessary (including the treatment of sensitive cementum or dentine, the stoning and smoothing of the surface of a tooth, or the provisions of a temporary crown);.