# Dentists Act 1984, Section 44A: Supplementary provisions relating to financial penalties under sections 43B and 44


Schedule 3 (proceedings before the Investigating Committee, the Interim Orders Committee and Practice Committees: dentists) applies to proceedings before the Professional Conduct Committee under section 43B or 44 with the following modifications—
(a) references to proceedings under Part 3 of the Act shall be read as including proceedings under sections 43B and 44;
(b) references to a Committee shall be read as references to the Professional Conduct Committee;
(c) in paragraph 1—
(i) omit sub-paragraph (1), and
(ii) for sub-paragraph (2) substitute—
“(2) A “party” to proceedings means—
(a) the body corporate;
(b) any director or former director of the body corporate against whom the proceedings are brought; or
(c) the Council.”;
(d) in paragraph 2—
(i) omit sub-paragraph (1)(b),
(ii) in sub-paragraph (2)(a), for “the person to whose registration the proceedings relate” substitute “the body corporate and any director or former director of the body corporate on whom a financial penalty may be imposed”, and
(iii) in sub-paragraph (2)(g), omit “the person (if any) making the allegation and”;
(e) omit paragraph 5;
(f) in paragraph 6(5), for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute—
“(a) where the body corporate’s principal office is in Scotland, the sheriff in whose sheriffdom that office is situated; and”; and
(g) omit paragraph 7.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/24/section/44A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/dentists-act-1984/section-44A
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