Paragraph 14 Dentists performing personal dental services, general dental services or community dental service
Any dentist, whose name was not included in a dental list immediately before the relevant date and was performing personal dental services, general dental services or community dental service before the relevant date, may perform primary dental services, notwithstanding regulation 29(1) of the principal Regulations (dental performers list), until—
1 October 2006; or
the date on which the Local Health Board notifies him or her of its decision on his or her application to be included in its dental performers list,
whichever is the earlier, provided that that dentist applies, in accordance with the principal Regulations, to a Local Health Board to be included in its dental performers list not later than 1 May 2006.
A dentist making an application to a Local Health Board to perform personal dental services, general dental services or community dental service immediately before the relevant date, will only be required to provide the information required under regulations 4(2), (4) and (5) (application for inclusion in a performers list) and 30(1) (application for inclusion in a dental performers list) of the principal Regulations in so far as—
he or she has not already supplied it to that Board; or
it has changed since it was provided.
Any dentist to whom sub-paragraph (1) applies will comply with regulation 9 of the principal Regulations (requirements with which a performer in a performers list must comply), if any of the events therein specified occur, as though he or she were included in the dental performers list of the Local Health Board in whose area he or she is performing primary dental services.
A dentist may not perform primary dental services by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) during any period in which he or she is the subject of a suspension notice given by a Local Health Board under sub-paragraph (5).
A Local Health Board may give a suspension notice to a dentist to whom sub-paragraph (1) applies where it is satisfied that it is necessary to do so for the protection of members of the public or is otherwise in the public interest.
A Local Health Board may withdraw a suspension notice it has given under sub-paragraph (5) at any time.
During a period of suspension payments may be made to or in respect of the dentist by the Local Health Board in accordance with a determination by the National Assembly for Wales.
Where a Local Health Board—
has received an application from a dentist to whom sub-paragraph (1) applies; and
becomes aware in respect of that dentist of any of the matters listed in regulations 10(1) (removal from a performers list) or 32(1) (grounds for removal from a dental performers list) of the principal Regulations,
it will immediately decide the dentist’s application to be included in its dental performers list.