The National Health Service (General Dental Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1996

• Citation: S.I. 1996/2051
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Dental Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st September 1996.

Section 2 Amendment of the National Health Service (General Dental Services) Regulations 1992

(1) Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (General Dental Services) Regulations 1992 (terms of service for dentists) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 4 (a continuing care arrangement), in sub-paragraph (3), after “sub-paragraph (2)(c)” there shall be inserted “(and also in paragraph 5(2)(c))”.

(3) In paragraph 5 (a capitation arrangement), for head (c) of sub-paragraph (2) there shall be substituted—

(c) the care and treatment which is to be provided includes any of the items of treatment mentioned in paragraph 4(3).

(4) In paragraph 8 (duration and extention of a continuing care arrangement), for sub-paragraph (1) there shall be substituted—

(1) A continuing care arrangement shall lapse at the end of the 16th month beginning with the month in which—

(a) the patient was first accepted by the dentist under the continuing care arrangement; or

(b) it was extended, or was last extended, in accordance with sub-paragraph (3).

(5) In paragraph 9 (duration and extension of a capitation arrangement)—

(a) for sub-paragraph (1), there shall be substituted—

(1) A capitation arrangement shall lapse at the end of the 16th month beginning with the month in which—

(a) the patient was first accepted by the dentist under the capitation arrangement; or

(b) it was extended, or was last extended, in accordance with sub-paragraph (3).

(b) in sub-paragraph (3), “, but the arrangement may not be extended more than once in the same calender year” shall be omitted.

Section 3 Existing arrangements

A continuing care arrangement or a capitation arrangement entered into before 1st September 1996 but still current on that date shall continue to have effect as if regulation 2(4) and 2(5) of these Regulations had not come into force, until such time as the arrangement lapses, is terminated or is extended.