16.—(1) The National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 2003(1) is amended in accordance with this paragraph.
(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), in the appropriate alphabetical place insert the terms “course of treatment”, “urgent course of treatment” and “relevant primary dental services” and insert after each of those terms “has the meaning given to it in regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (Dental Charges) Regulations 2005(2)”.
(3) In regulation 3(1)(a) (NHS travel expenses)(3)—
(a)after “primary medical services”, insert “or primary dental services”; and
(b)omit the words “or personal dental services provided under section 28C of the Act”.
(4) In regulation 4(1) (remissible NHS charges), for sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) substitute—
“(b)in accordance with regulations made under section 79 of the Act in respect of charges for relevant dental services)”.
(5) In regulation 5(3) (entitlement to full remission payment), for sub-paragraph (c) substitute—
“(c)in the case of a charge for relevant dental services—
(i)the arrangements for the treatment or urgent course of treatment under the Act are made,
(ii)the arrangements for the supply of dentures or other dental appliances under the Act otherwise than as part of relevant primary dental services are made, or
(iii)the charge is made.”.
(6) In regulation 6 (entitlement to partial remission and payment), for paragraph (4) substitute—
“(4) In the case of a NHS Charge for relevant dental services, the charge which is partially remissible under this regulation and which must be used for the purposes of the calculation required under paragraph (3)(a) is the charge made—
(a)for one course of treatment or urgent course of treatment, including any charge made for a denture or other dental appliance supplied in that course of treatment; or
(b)for the supply of dentures or other dental appliances under the Act otherwise than as part of relevant primary dental services.”.