{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2209",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Dental Services) Amendment Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (interpretation) the following definitions shall be inserted in the appropriate places in the alphabetical order–\n““Appeal Body” means the body referred to in regulation 5B;\n“appeal committee” means a committee appointed by the Appeal Body in accordance with regulation 5C(3);\n“approved trainer” means a dentist whose name is included in a dental list and who is approved by a postgraduate dental dean or a Director of postgraduate dental education as being a dentist who has the requisite skills and suitable practice facilities to enable him to act as a trainer;\n“vocational training” means a period of one year’s full time employment (or an equivalent period of part–time employment) undertaken wholly after 30th September 1993 during which a dentist is employed under a contract of service by an approved trainer to provide a wide range of dental care and treatment and to attend such study days as that contract requires with the aim and objectives set out respectively in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 1A;\n“vocational training certificate” means a certificate confirming that a dentist has completed vocational training issued–\n(a) in England, Wales or Northern Ireland by a postgraduate dental dean or a Director of postgraduate dental education; or\n(b) in Scotland by the director of postgraduate dental education, the chairman of the Scottish Dental Vocational Training Committee or a regional general dental practice vocational training adviser; or\n(c) the Director of the Royal Naval Dental Service, the Director of the Royal Army Dental Corps or the Director of the Dental Branch of the Royal Air Force;\n“vocational training number” means a number allocated to a dentist–\n(a) in England and Wales under regulation 5A,\n(b) in Scotland under regulation 4ZA of the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974,\n(c) in Northern Ireland under provisions equivalent to these Regulations;\n“voluntary vocational training certificate” means a vocational training certificate or a letter confirming that a dentist has completed vocational training on or before 30th September 1994 and signed, in either case, in England and Wales, by a postgraduate dental dean or Director of postgraduate dental education, in Scotland by the chairman of the Scottish Dental Vocational Training Committee or an officer of a Regional Committee for Postgraduate Dental Education and in Northern Ireland by the Adviser in vocational training;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1974/505."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2209/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:51:03.846601+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}