{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-council-continuing-professional-development-professions-complementary-to-dentistry-rules-order-of-council-2008/schedule/rule-4/enacted",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-council-continuing-professional-development-professions-complementary-to-dentistry-rules-order-of-council-2008/schedule/rule-4/enacted.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1823",
  "legislation_title": "The General Dental Council (Continuing Professional Development) (Professions Complementary to Dentistry) Rules Order of Council 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-council-continuing-professional-development-professions-complementary-to-dentistry-rules-order-of-council-2008/enacted",
  "path": "schedule/rule/4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "CPD record",
  "text": "(1) A dental care professional shall keep an up-to-date record of CPD completed during a CPD cycle (“CPD record”).\n(2) A CPD record shall contain—\n(a) a description of each item of CPD completed by the dental care professional, indicating whether the item constitutes verifiable CPD;\n(b) the number of hours of CPD attributed to each item; and\n(c) the documentary evidence in respect of each item of verifiable CPD completed by the dental care professional.\n(3) A dental care professional shall retain a CPD record for at least five years after the end of the CPD cycle to which it relates.\n(4) At any time within the period of five years after the end of a CPD cycle, the registrar may send a dental care professional a notice requiring the dental care professional to deliver to the registrar the dental care professional’s CPD record for that CPD cycle.\n(5) The notice must—\n(a) specify a date, not less than 28 days after the date on which the notice is sent, by which the dental care professional must comply with the notice; and\n(b) state that if, by the date specified in the notice, the dental care professional does not—\n(i) complete the CPD record to the satisfaction of the registrar, including the provision of the information specified in paragraph (2); and\n(ii) deliver the CPD record to the registrar,\nthe dental care professional’s name may be erased from registration under all titles under which the dental care professional is registered.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "enacted",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1823/schedule/rule/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-13T03:33:38.910164+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."
}