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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-qualifications-health-and-social-care-professions-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2018/schedule-3/paragraph-37",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111177686",
  "legislation_title": "The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-european-qualifications-health-and-social-care-professions-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/37",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Visiting dentists: saving of old law for up to one year",
  "text": "(1) Where, immediately before exit day—\n(a) a visiting dentist was entitled under paragraph 4 or 7 of Schedule 4 to the 1984 Act to provide occasional dental services, or\n(b) the registrar was in receipt of the required documents (within the meaning of paragraph 5 of that Schedule) from a dentist seeking to acquire that entitlement,\nany provision made by or under the Act, or by the 1998 Regulations, continues to apply in relation to the dentist without the amendments that Part 1 of this Schedule makes to the provisions relating to visiting dentists from relevant European states.\n(2) But a visiting dentist’s entitlement does not continue (or further continue) under paragraph 7 of Schedule 4 to the 1984 Act on or after exit day (and, accordingly, the entitlement lapses at the end of the period mentioned in paragraph 8(1) or (2) of that Schedule).\n(3) The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to “the provisions relating to visiting dentists from relevant European states” is to the provisions listed in the following table.\nAct or instrument\nProvision relating to visiting dentists\nThe 1984 Act\nsection 14(1A)\nsection 19(1) and (1A)\nsection 26A(11)\nsection 34AA\nsection 36\nin section 53(1), the definitions of “the Directive”, “exempt person”, “the General Systems Regulations”, and “national”\nSchedule 2A, paragraph 2(1)(l)\nSchedule 4\nThe 1998 Regulations\nregulation 8(2)(e), (2A) and (2B)\nregulation 14(1)(bc)\nGeneral Dental Council (Indemnity Arrangements) (Dentists and Dental Care Professionals) Rules 2015\nrule 1(2)\nGeneral Dental Council (Continuing Professional Development) (Dentists and Dental Care Professionals) Rules 2017\nrule 1(3)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111177686/schedule/3/paragraph/37",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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