{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-primary-and-specialist-dental-qualifications-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-primary-and-specialist-dental-qualifications-regulations-1998/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/811",
  "legislation_title": "The European Primary and Specialist Dental Qualifications Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-primary-and-specialist-dental-qualifications-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Dentists Act 1984 ;\n“appropriate European diploma” shall be construed in accordance with Part I of Schedule 2 to the Act ;\n“CCST” means Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in orthodontics or, as the case may be, oral surgery ;\n“competent authority” means any authority or body of a relevant European State designated by that State for the purposes of the Directive as competent to—\n(a)receive or issue evidence of qualifications or other information or documents, or\n(b)receive applications and take the decisions referred to in the Directive,\nin connection with practice as a specialist dentist in orthodontics or oral surgery;\n“dental authority” shall be construed in accordance with section 3(4) of the Act;\n“the Directive” means Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7th September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications (OJ No L255, 30.09.2005, p 22), and any reference in these Regulations to the Directive or to any provision of the Directive is a reference to the Directive, or to that provision, as it had effect immediately before IP completion day;\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n“GDC” means General Dental Council ;\n...\n...\n...\n...\n“primary qualification” means a qualification held by the persons referred to in section 15(1) of the Act ;\n...\n“the register” means the dentists’ register ;\n“registered dentist” means a person registered in the register other than with temporary registration, except in regulations 8(1) and (2) and 12(1), where it has the meaning assigned in the Act ;\n“registrar” means the registrar of the GDC ; and\n“registration number” means the number by which a registered dentist is identified in the register;\n“relevant European State” means an EEA State or Switzerland.\n(2) In these Regulations, any reference to a consultant in the National Health Service is to a consultant other than a locum consultant (but including an honorary consultant) employed for the purposes of providing any service as part of the health service continued under section 1(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977 , section 1(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 or Article 4 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 136(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/593), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 32(2)(a) (with reg. 12A, Sch. 3 Pt. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1394, regs. 4, 11(4)-(10)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (25.5.2018) by virtue of Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 235(2) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/593), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 32(2)(b) (with reg. 12A, Sch. 3 Pt. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1394, regs. 4, 11(4)-(10)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (3.12.2007) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 136(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (3.12.2007) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 136(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (3.12.2007) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 136(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (3.12.2007) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 136(2)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 136(2)(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Reg. 2(3) omitted (3.12.2007) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 136(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1984 c. 24."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Part I of Schedule 2 was amended by S.I. 1996/1496, regulation 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "See article 5(1) and (2) of the Recognition Directive under the heading “in the United Kingdom”."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "See the Dentists Act 1984 (c. 24), section 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "Section 15(1) was amended by SI 1996/1496, regulation 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "Section 14(1) of the Act provides for the continuation of the register of registered dentists."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M7",
      "text": "See section 53(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M8",
      "text": "Section 14(2) of the Act provides for the register to be kept by a registrar."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M9",
      "text": "1977 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M10",
      "text": "1978 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M11",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/811/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:33:56.378384+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}