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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1993/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1993/326",
  "legislation_title": "General Dental Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-dental-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1993",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Dental list",
  "text": "(1) The Agency shall, from information obtained from Boards, prepare a list, to be called the dental list, of dentists who, pursuant to the provisions of regulation 5, have undertaken to provide general dental services and who are not disqualified for inclusion by virtue of the provisions of—\n(a) Article 61(2A) or Article 65 of, and Schedule 11 to the Order; or\n(b) Article 4 of the Health and Medicines (Northern Ireland) Order 1988; or\n(c) regulation 7 (restrictions on the right to be included in the dental list).\n(2) The dental list shall, in addition to containing the name of a dentist,—\n(a) contain—\n(i) the addresses of all his practice premises and, where he provides general dental services at a mobile surgery only, the address at which correspondence in connection with such provision may be sent to him,\n(ii) particulars of the days and hours when he is or will usually be in attendance at the practice premises for the provision of general dental services and, in the case of any mobile surgery, particulars of the places visited regularly by him and the times of those visits,\n(iii) the name of any other dentist in association with whom he provides general dental services at his practice premises,\n(iv) the date of his registration as a dental practitioner in the register kept under section 14 of the Dentists Act, particulars of the dental qualification which entitled him to be so registered, including the date on which the qualification was awarded, and particulars of any other dental qualification held by him which is registrable pursuant to section 19(1)(c) of the Dentists Act; and\n(b) indicate—\n(i) whether the dentist provides only orthodontic treatment, and\n(ii) whether there is access to the dental surgery without the use of stairs.\n(3) The dental list may, provided that the dentist consents to their inclusion, also give particulars of any languages, other than English, spoken by the dentist.\n(4) The dental list may, if the Agency thinks fit, be so arranged as to show the area in which each dentist has undertaken to provide general dental services.\n(5) A dentist whose name is included in the dental list shall notify the Board of any occurrence requiring an alteration to the information recorded in relation to him in the dental list within 14 days of the date of such occurrence.\n(6) The Agency shall—\n(a) send to the Department, each Board and each Local Dental Committee a copy of the dental list; and\n(b) notify the Department, each Board and each Local Dental Committee of any alteration to the dental list within 7 days of the date on which the alteration is made.\n(7) Subject to paragraph (9), the Agency shall—\n(a) send, if requested to do so, a copy of the dental list to—\n(i) a Local Medical Committee,\n(ii) a Local Pharmaceutical Committee,\n(iii) a hospital or HSS trust,\n(iv) any organisation representative of the dental profession,\n(v) a person whose name is included in the list maintained by the Agency pursuant to Article 63(2A) of the Order; and\n(b) in that event, notify them, at intervals of not less than 3 months, of any alterations made to the dental list.\n(8) The Agency shall prepare an updated dental list each year and send a copy—\n(a) to the Department, to each Board and to each Local Dental Committee; and\n(b) subject to paragraph (9), to any person mentioned in paragraph (7)(a) who under that paragraph requested a copy of the dental list.\n(9) Where the Agency considers that only parts of, or only some of the alterations to, the dental list are likely to concern any person mentioned in paragraph (7)(a), the Agency may instead of sending him a copy of the list or notifying him of all those alterations send that person a copy only of those parts or, as the case may be, notify him only of those alterations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 11 was amended by Article 17 of, and Part I of Schedule 6 to, S.I. 1984/1158 (N.I. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/2249 (N.I. 24)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph (2A) was inserted by Article 5(1) of S.l. 1986/2023 (N.I. 20)"
    }
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      "type": "words omitted",
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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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