Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 2497 (S. 205)

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, SCOTLAND

The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990

Made

6th December 1990

Laid before Parliament

10th December 1990

Coming into force

1st January 1991

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 25(1), (2) and (5), 105(7) and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st January 1991.

(2) In these Regulations a reference to "the principal Regulations" is to the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974(2).

Amendments to the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974

2.-(1) Regulation 36 of the principal Regulations (amounts and time of payments in consequence of suspension) shall be amended as follows:-�

(a)in paragraph (1)(a)(i) for "£2,243" there is substituted "£2,478";

(b)in paragraph (1)(a)(ii) for "£1,121" there is substituted "£1,239";

(c)in paragraph (1)(b)(i) for "£1,121" there is substituted "£1,239";

(d)in paragraph (1)(b)(ii) for "£2,243" there is substituted "£2,478"; and

(e)in paragraph (2) for "£117,689" in both places where it occurs there is substituted "£126,755".

(2) In sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 16 (Occasional treatment) of Schedule 1 (Terms of service for dentists) to the principal Regulations, for head (j) there shall be substituted the following:-�

"(j)palliative treatment that is immediately necessary (including the treatment of sensitive cementum or dentine, the stoning and smoothing of the surface of a tooth, or the provisions of a temporary crown);".

Revocation

3. The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1989(3) are hereby revoked.

Michael B. Forsyth

Minister of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew's House,

Edinburgh

6th December 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974, which provide for the arrangements under which dentists provide general dental services as part of the National Health Service in Scotland.

Regulation 2(1) increases the amounts of, and amounts used in calculating, payments to dentists during periods when their registration under the Dentists Act 1984 (c. 24), is suspended by an interim suspension order or by a direction or order of the Health Committee of the General Dental Council.

Regulation 2(2) makes a minor adjustment to the list of items of treatment which a dentist can provide as occasional treatment.

(1)

1978 c. 29; section 25(2) was amended by S.I. 1981/432, article 4(3), by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49) ("the 1988 Act"), Schedule 2, paragraph 11 and by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 40(2) and Schedule 9, paragraph 19(6) and was extended by the 1988 Act, section 17; section 25(5) was inserted by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41) ("the 1983 Act"), section 16; section 105(7), which was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Schedule 6, paragraph 5 and Schedule 7 and by the 1983 Act, Schedule 9, paragraph 24, contains provisions relevant to the making of Regulations; section 108(1) contains a definition of "regulations" relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made.

(2)

S.I. 1974/505; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1987/1634, 1989/602 and 1990/1772.

(3)

S.I. 1989/602.