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HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 61

61.(1) Every Health and Social Services Board shall, in accordance with
regulations, make arrangements in respect of its area with dental
practitioners under which any person for whom a dental practitioner undertakes
in accordance with the arrangements to provide dental treatment and appliances
shall receive such treatment and appliances, and the services provided in
accordance with the arrangements are in this Order referred to as "general
dental services".

(2) Subject to paragraph (4), regulations may make provisions as to the
arrangements to be made under paragraph (1), and shall include provision

(a)for the preparation, publication and maintenance of lists of dental
practitioners who undertake to provide general dental services;

(b)for conferring a right, subject to [paragraph (2A) and to] the provisions
of this Order relating to the disqualification of persons providing services,
on any dental practitioner resident in Northern Ireland who wishes to be
included in any such list, to be so included;

(c)for conferring a right on any person to choose, in accordance with the
prescribed procedure, the dental practitioner from whom he is to receive
general dental services, subject to the consent of the practitioner so chosen;

(d)for the making and recovery by persons providing general dental services of
charges in respect of

(i)the extra expense involved in the supply, at the request of the person
supplied, as part of those services, of any dental appliance which is of a
more expensive type than that which would normally be supplied, or the
replacement or repair of any such appliance; or

(ii)the replacement or repair of any dental appliance supplied as part of the
services aforesaid, if it is determined in the prescribed manner that the
replacement or repair is necessitated by an act or omission of the person
supplied or (if it occurred when he was under sixteen years of age) of his or
of the person having charge of him when it occurred; and

(e)for [the determination of] the remuneration of dental practitioners
providing general dental services.

[(2A) No dental practitioner who is a national of a member State and is
registered by virtue of a qualification granted in a member State shall be
entitled to have his name included in the lists mentioned in paragraph (2)(a)
unless he satisfies the Health and Social Services Board in whose area his
surgery is, or is to be, situated that he has that knowledge of English which,
in the interests of himself and his patients, is necessary for the provision
of general dental services in the Board's area.]

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), regulations may make provision for the making
and recovery of charges (subject to such safeguards as the Ministry may
consider necessary) by persons providing general dental services in respect of
treatment which, on the ground of the nature of the treatment provided or such
other special circumstances (whether related to the nature of the treatment or
otherwise) as may be prescribed, justifies an extra charge.

(4) Before making any regulations under this Article, the Ministry shall
consult such organisations as appear to the Minister to be representative of
the dental profession.

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