The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) Regulations 2013

Interpretation: general definitions E+W

29.—(1) In this Part—

“approved trainer” means a dental practitioner—

(a)

who is included in the dental performers list; and

(b)

who has been approved for a specified period, which has not elapsed, by a postgraduate dental dean or director of postgraduate dental education as having the requisite skills and suitable practice facilities to act as a trainer;

“community dental service” means dental services provided under section 3(1)(c) of the 2006 Act (duties as to certain health services) M1 ;

[F1 “contractor” means—

(a)

a person within the meaning of “contractor” in section 100(4)M2 of the 2006 Act; or

(b)

a person providing primary dental services under section 107 arrangements;]

“dental practitioner” means a person who is registered in the dentists register;

F2 ...

“health case” means a fitness to practise case in which an allegation is made that a dental practitioner's fitness to practise is impaired by reason of adverse physical or mental health;

“Interim Orders Committee” means the Interim Orders Committee of the General Dental Council;

“postgraduate dental dean or director of postgraduate dental education” means a dental practitioner appointed to that position to assist in the provision of a suitable learning environment for dental practitioners performing primary dental services to meet the requirements and standards of the Dental Faculties of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Department of Health [F3 and Social Care];

“Practice Committee” has the meaning given in section 2(3) of the Dentists Act 1984 (committees of the Council) M3 ;

“professional registration number” means, in relation to a dental practitioner, the number against the dental practitioner's name in the dentists register;

“relevant scheme” means, in relation to a dental practitioner, the scheme in respect of which the dental practitioner is applying to be included in a dental performers list;

“scheme” means an arrangement to provide primary dental services—

(a)

in accordance with section 107 arrangements; or

(b)

under a general dental services contract within the meaning of section 100(2) of the 2006 Act (general dental services contracts); and

“section 107 arrangements” has the meaning given in section 107(8) of the 2006 Act (arrangements for the provision of primary dental services) M4 .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 29(1) substituted (25.11.2022) by The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1131), regs. 1(1), 3

F2 Words in reg. 29(1) omitted (1.4.2015) by virtue of The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/362), regs. 1(1), 10

F3 Words in reg. 29 inserted (11.4.2018) by The Secretaries of State for Health and Social Care and for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Transfer of Functions (Commonhold Land) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/378), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 20(y) (with art. 14)

Marginal Citations

M1 Section 3 was amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), section 13.

M2 Section 100 was amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), section 55, Schedule 4, Part 5, paragraph 43.

M3 Sub-section (3) was substituted by S.I. 2005/2011.

M4 Section 107 was amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), section 55 and Schedule 4, Part 5, paragraph 48.