PART 4DENTISTS AND PROFESSIONS COMPLEMENTARY TO DENTISTRY

CHAPTER 1AMENDMENT OF THE DENTISTS ACT 1984

Amendment of Schedule 2I152

1

Schedule 2 (European dental qualifications) is amended as follows.

2

In paragraph 136

a

the existing wording becomes sub-paragraph (1);

b

after sub-paragraph (1), as so renumbered, insert—

2

References in this Schedule to article 34 of the Directive are, in relation to training begun on or before 18 January 2016, to article 34 disregarding the amendments made by Directive 2013/55/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2013.

3

After paragraph 6A37 insert—

6B

A medical qualification as a doctor awarded in Spain to a person who began medical training at a university between 1 January 1986 and 31 December 1997 is an appropriate European diploma for the purposes of section 15(1)(b) where that person produces to the registrar a certificate issued by the competent authority in Spain certifying that—

a

the person has successfully completed at least three years of study, certified by the competent authority in Spain, as being equivalent to the training referred to in article 34 of the Directive;

b

the person has effectively, lawfully and principally practised dentistry in Spain for at least three consecutive years during the five years preceding the date of issue of the certificate; and

c

the person is authorised to practise dentistry or is effectively, lawfully and principally engaged in dentistry under the same conditions as a holder of the qualifications listed in relation to Spain in Annex V, point 5.3.2 of the Directive.