The National Health Service (Personal Dental Services Agreements) Regulations 2005

[F1 Notice provisions specific to an agreement with a limited liability partnership E+W

42B.— (1) Where a limited liability partnership is a party to an agreement it shall give notice to [F2 NHS England] forthwith when—

(a) it passes a resolution or a court of competent jurisdiction makes an order that the contractor be wound up;

(b) circumstances arise which might entitle a creditor or a court to appoint a receiver, administrator or administrative receiver for the contractor;

(c) circumstances arise which would enable the court to make a winding up order in respect of the contractor;

(d) the contractor is unable to pay its debts within the meaning of section 123 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (definition of inability to pay debts); or

(e) any membership changes are notified in accordance with section 9 of the Limited Liability Partnership Act 2000 (registration of membership changes) to the registrar (within the meaning of that Act) in relation to a person who becomes or ceases to be a member or designated member (within the meaning of that Act) and the notice must specify the date on which that person becomes or ceases to be a member or designated member (as the case may be).

(2) A notice under sub-paragraph (e) must confirm—

(a) that any new member joining the partnership meets the conditions imposed by regulation 4 (general conditions relating to all agreements); and

(b) following the membership changes, that sub-sections 108(1B) or 108(1C) of the 2006 Act continue to apply to the partnership.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 3 paras. 42A, 42B inserted (1.4.2013) by The National Health Service (Primary Dental Services) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/364), regs. 1(1), 39(24) (with Sch. 2)

F2 Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1