Explanatory note

These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (General Dental Services) Regulations 1973 (“the principal Regulations”), which provide for the arrangements under which dentists provide general dental services under the National Health Service in England and Wales.

Regulation 2 inserts a new regulation 6A into the principal Regulations to provide for the removal, annually from 1st April 1990, from lists of dentists providing general dental services, of the name of any dentist who has attained the age specified in relation to the year in question. The new regulation also provides for a dentist to be given written notice of the removal of his name from a list and for the Family Practitioner Committee to notify the Secretary of State. Transitional provision is made (in regulation 3 of these Regulations) for the period of notice applicable in relation to those dentists whose names fall to be removed on 1st April 1990.