The National Health Service (Dental Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2006

Charges for the provision of dental services

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, a charge of the amount provided for in, and calculated in accordance with, regulation 4 may be made and recovered in respect of—

(a) the provision of relevant primary dental services; and

(b) the supply of dental appliances under the Act otherwise than as part of relevant primary dental services.

(2) No charge will be made and recovered under paragraph (1) in respect of—

(a) a supply under the Act, otherwise than as part of relevant primary dental services, of dental appliances to a person who has undergone operative procedures affecting the mandible, the maxilla or the soft tissues of the mouth as part of treatment for invasive tumours;

(b) a prisoner;

(c) the provision of dental public health services;

(d) the removal of sutures;

(e) subject to paragraph (3) below, the clinical examination and any report on that examination and the provision of an assessment and advice where, on the day upon which the examination is being performed or the assessment is made, the patient—

(i) is under the age of 25 years; or

(ii) has attained the age of 60 years; or

(f) the examination and assessment of a patient leading to—

(i) the issue of a prescription,

(ii) the repair of a dental appliance,

(iii) the arrest of bleeding, or

(iv) the removal of sutures,

if, at the same time, no other treatment listed in Schedules 1, 2 or 4 is provided and no dental appliances listed in Schedule 3 are supplied.

(3) (a) it is a condition of entitlement under regulation 3(2)(e) that—

(i) a written declaration, on a form provided for that purpose by the Local Health Board will be made to the effect that the patient is, on the day upon which the examination takes place, within one of the categories specified in regulation 3(2)(e); and

(ii) where the Local Health Board so requires evidence of entitlement will be supplied by or on behalf of the patient;

(b) the declaration referred to in paragraph (3) (a)(i) will be made by the patient for whom the examination will be provided, except where the application is made by another person on the patient’s behalf, it will be made instead by that person;

(c) in this Regulation “evidence of entitlement” means the patient’s birth certificate;

(d) nothing in paragraphs (3) (a)(ii) or (c) prevents the Local Health Board from accepting evidence other than that referred to in paragraph (3) as a means of establishing that a patient is within one of the categories referred to in regulation 3(2)(e).