Regulation 2 Amendment of Regulations

(1)

The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1974^f1 are amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2)

In regulation 2 (interpretation), for the definition of “dental officer” there shall be substituted:

““dental officer” means—

(a)

for the purposes of regulation 18 (investigation of record keeping), a dentist in the service of the Dental Practice Board^f2, or of the Welsh Office, as the case may be, and

(b)

for all other purposes, a dentist in the service of the Department of Health, or of the Welsh Office, as the case may be;”.

(3)

In regulation 14 (procedure on withholding money), for the words “the Deputy Chief Dental Officer” in paragraph (6) there shall be substituted:

(a)

in the first instance where they appear, the words “his deputy (being a dental officer)”;

(b)

in the second instance where they appear, the words “his deputy”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1974/455, as amended by S.I. 1974/907, 1985/39, 1987/445.
f2: See section 12(1) of the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49).