Regulation 2 Amendment of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations

Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations (application for inclusion in the dental list) is amended as follows.

In paragraph (2), for “paragraph (4)” there is substituted “paragraphs (3A) and (4)”.

In paragraph (3), for “regulation 5A” there is substituted “these Regulations”.

After paragraph (3) there is inserted—

“(3A)

Where a dentist’s application for a vocational training number is refused, the FHSA shall immediately determine to refuse his application under paragraph (1) on that ground alone, but the function of so doing shall be exercised on behalf of the FHSA by the Dental Vocational Training Authority^f1.”

At the end of paragraph (4) there is inserted “and shall then apply as if the reference to the date of receipt of the application were a reference to the date of receipt of notice of his vocational training number”.