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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1634",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974 (“the principal Regulations”) by the insertion, by way of regulation 2, of a new Part VIII (comprising regulations 33-38) into the principal Regulations. The new Part VIII makes provision for payments to be made to dentists whose registration under the Dentists Act 1984 is suspended by an interim suspension order or by a direction or order of the Health Committee. Under section 25(4) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 a dentist with whom arrangements have been made for the provision of general dental services and whose registration is so suspended is not permitted to provide those services in person during the suspension, although the suspension does not result in termination of the arrangements.\nIn particular provision is made in the new Part VIII for the following matters:—\n(a) entitlement to payment (regulation 34 of the principal Regulations), including restrictions on entitlement (regulation 34(3) and (4));\n(b) application for payment (regulation 35);\n(c) amounts and times of payment (regulation 36); two different rates of payment depending upon the circumstances of the suspension, subject also to a reduction in cases where the dentist has low earnings or has been on the dental list of a Health Board for less than two years;\n(d) changes in circumstances (regulation 37);\n(e) overpayments (regulation 38).\nRegulation 3 of these Regulations amends Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations so as to enable dentists to provide fissure sealants as preventive treatment to persons under 16.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1634/note",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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