# General Dental Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations further amend the Health and Personal Social Services General Dental Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 (“the principal Regulations”) which regulate the terms on which general dental services are provided under the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972.
Regulation 2 amends regulation 8 of the principal Regulations (removal from dental list) to require a Board to remove the name of a dentist from the dental list if he has been convicted in the United Kingdom of murder or has been convicted in the United Kingdom of a criminal offence and sentenced to a term of imprisonment of at least 6 months.
Regulation 3 amends regulation 14 of the principal Regulations so that dentists who have undertaken to provide only Emergency Dental Services, are not required to have their name included in the dental list.
Regulations 4 and 5 amend regulations 19 and 20 of the principal Regulations so that Determination V of the Statement of Dental Remuneration relates to the subject matter “commitment payments”.
Regulation 6 amends Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations, which contains dentists' terms of service, with regard to forms and records. Regulation 6(2) amends the circumstances in which records must be produced for inspection. Regulation 6(3) inserts a new requirement for a dentist to ask to see evidence in support of a patient’s claim that he is entitled to exemption from, or remission of, dental charges and to record in his claim for remuneration when he does not see such evidence. Regulation 6(4) inserts a requirement for separate claim forms to be completed for treatment given by assistants.
Regulation 7 amends Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (application for inclusion in the dental list). Regulation 7(2) inserts a new paragraph 17 into Part I of the Schedule. The new paragraph sets out an additional declaration which requires the applicant to state any convictions or current proceedings for a criminal offence or action by a professional licensing or regulatory body.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/2/note (the official version)
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