The National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1987
These Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974 (“the principal Regulations”) by the insertion, by way of regulation 2, of a new Part VIII (comprising regulations 33-38) into the principal Regulations. The new Part VIII makes provision for payments to be made to dentists whose registration under the Dentists Act 1984 is suspended by an interim suspension order or by a direction or order of the Health Committee. Under section 25(4) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 a dentist with whom arrangements have been made for the provision of general dental services and whose registration is so suspended is not permitted to provide those services in person during the suspension, although the suspension does not result in termination of the arrangements.