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

Functions of the Board in respect of general dental services

38.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), the functions of the Board under the 1992 Regulations which are specified in paragraph (2) shall be exercisable by the NHS Business Services Authority in respect of general dental services provided before 1st April 2006.

(2) The specified functions referred to in paragraph (1) are—

(a) the approval and making of payments under regulation 20;

(b) the recovery of overpayments under regulation 22;

(c) the making of any payments under regulation 26(7);

(d) the consideration of overpayments, notification of overpayments and recovery of such overpayments under regulation 28;

(e) the payments to dentists suspended by Primary Care Trusts under regulation 28B;

(f) complying with the request from the Primary Care Trust for a written statement in accordance with regulation 30A(5) of the 1992 Regulations and any steps in the appeal which the Board may have taken before 1st April 2006; and

(g) the authority to request any records, forms, radiographs, photographs and study models under paragraph 25(3) of Schedule 1 to the 1992 Regulations.

(3) Notwithstanding the revocation of the 1992 Regulations, for the purposes of the NHS Business Services Authority exercising the functions of the Board, the provisions specified in paragraph (2) shall continue to have effect as on 31st March 2006 and references to the Board in those provisions shall be read as a reference to the NHS Business Services Authority.