Article 15D Primary medical services or personal dental services: regulationsF1F17

include provision for participants other than F2the Department to withdraw from Article 15B arrangements if they wish to do so;

impose conditions (including conditions as to qualifications and experience) to be satisfied byF3. . . dental practitioners performing personal dental services, in accordance with Article 15B arrangements.

provide that Article 15B arrangements may be made only in prescribed circumstances;

provide that Article 15B arrangements may be made only in prescribed areas;

provide that only prescribed services, or prescribed categories of service, may be provided in accordance with Article 15B arrangements;

impose conditions (including conditions as to qualifications and experience) to be satisfied by persons performing primary medical services in accordance with Article 15B arrangements;

require details of Article 15B arrangements to be published;

make provision with respect to the variation and termination of Article 15B arrangements;

provide for parties to Article 15B arrangements to be treated, in such circumstances and to such extent as may be prescribed, as F5health care bodies for the purposes of Article 8 of the 1991 Order;

provide for directions, as to payments, made under Article 8(8) of the 1991 Order (as it has effect as a result of regulations made by virtue of sub-paragraph (h)) to be enforceable in a county court (if the court so orders) as if they were judgments or orders of that court;

authorise F6the Department to makeF7 with respect to the provision of personal dental services payments of financial assistance for prescribed categories of preparatory work undertaken⿿

for the referral of the terms of the proposed arrangements to F13a prescribed body ; and

for F14that body to determine the terms on which the arrangements may be entered into.

as to the members of the body, including the terms and conditions of their appointment;

for the payment of fees and allowances to members of the body.

shall or may accept a person as a patient to whom such services are so provided;

may decline to accept a person as such a patient;

may terminate his responsibility for a patient.