The General Dental Services, Personal Dental Services and Abolition of the Dental Practice Board Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2006

Interpretation

31.—(1) In this Part—

“the Service Committees Regulations” means the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992(1);

“amendments” in respect of any regulation or regulations in the Service Committees Regulations means amendments made to that regulation or those regulations by paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to this Order;

“appropriate PCT” has the same meaning as in the Service Committees Regulations;

“contracting PCT” means a Primary Care Trust that has entered into—

(a)

a general dental services contract with—

(i)

a dentist who is the subject of the allegation,

(ii)

a partnership, where a dentist who is the subject of the allegation is a partner, or

(iii)

a dental corporation, where a dentist who is the subject of the allegation is a director, chief executive or secretary of that corporation; or

(b)

a personal dental services agreement with—

(i)

a dentist who is the subject of the allegation, or

(ii)

a qualifying body, where a dentist who is the subject of the allegation is a director, chief executive or secretary of that body;

“dentist” has the same meaning as in the Service Committees Regulations;

“the Performers List PCT” means the Primary Care Trust in whose dental performers list the dentist’s name appears on 1st April 2006;

“Performers Lists Regulations” means the National Health Service (Performers Lists) Regulations 2004(2);

“relevant contractor” means a party to a general dental services contract or personal dental services agreement with a contracting PCT, where that contractor is—

(a)

a dentist who is the subject of the allegation;

(b)

a partnership, where a dentist who is or was the subject of the allegation is a partner in that partnership; or

(c)

a dental corporation or qualifying body, where a dentist who is or was the subject of the allegation is a director, chief executive or secretary of that corporation or body; and

“relevant date” means 1st April 2006.

(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Part to—

(a) a numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in the Service Committees Regulations; and

(b) a numbered Schedule is to the Schedule to the Service Committees Regulations bearing that number.

(1)

S.I. 1992/664 as amended by S.I. 1996/703, 1998/674, 2002/2469 and 2003/1397.

(2)

S.I. 2004/585; as amended by S.I. 2004/2694 and 2005/502, 893 and 3491.