Regulation 2 Amendment of the Dental Auxiliaries Regulations 1986

(1)

The Dental Auxiliaries Regulations 1986^f1 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2)

In regulation 6 (fees prescribed by the General Dental Council) for “£6.00” there shall be substituted “£10.00”.

(3)

In regulation 23 (dental hygienists)—

(a)

in paragraph (1) after the words “of any other kind” there shall be added the words “, except that the scaling of teeth under sub-paragraph (b) above may be carried out by a dental hygienist under local infiltration analgesia administered by the dental hygienist or under any local or regional block analgesia administered by a registered dentist”;

(b)

in paragraph (2) after the words “has indicated” there shall be inserted the words “in writing”; and

(c)

in paragraph (3) for the words from “Except” to “dental work” there shall be substituted the words “A dental hygienist shall administer local infiltration analgesia”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1986/887.