{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-council-continuing-professional-development-professions-complementary-to-dentistry-rules-order-of-council-2008/schedule/rule-8/enacted",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-council-continuing-professional-development-professions-complementary-to-dentistry-rules-order-of-council-2008/schedule/rule-8/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/8",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Completion of CPD requirement during period of grace",
  "text": "(1) Where a dental care professional delivers a CPD statement or CPD record to the registrar under rules 4, 5 or 6 but the registrar is not satisfied that the dental care professional has complied with the CPD requirement during the CPD cycle to which the CPD statement or CPD record relates, the registrar shall send a notice to the dental care professional which shall—\n(a) state the reasons why the registrar is not satisfied that the dental care professional has complied with the CPD requirement; and\n(b) invite the dental care professional to—\n(i) make written representations or submit written evidence to the registrar on the matters specified in the notice; or\n(ii) give an undertaking to the registrar to complete the outstanding CPD in respect of the CPD cycle within a period of grace.\n(2) A notice sent under paragraph (1) must 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.\n(3) Where, after considering any written representations made or written evidence submitted by a dental care professional in response to a notice sent under paragraph (1), the registrar is not satisfied the dental care professional has complied with the CPD requirement, the registrar shall send a notice to the dental care professional inviting the dental care professional to give an undertaking to complete the outstanding CPD in respect of the CPD cycle within a period of grace.\n(4) A notice sent under paragraph (3) must specify a date, not less than 7 days after the date on which the notice is sent, by which the dental care professional must give the required undertaking.\n(5) Where a dental care professional has given an undertaking in response to a notice sent under paragraph (1) or (3), the dental care professional shall send written evidence of completion of the outstanding CPD to the registrar within 7 days of the end of the period of grace.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "enacted",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1823/schedule/rule/8",
    "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."
}