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(1) These regulations may be cited as the General Dental Services (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 1st September 1996.
(2) In these regulations, “the principal regulations” means the Health and Personal Social Services General Dental Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993.
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(1) Schedule 2 to the principal regulations (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 extension 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).”; and
(b) in sub-paragraph (3), the words “, but the arrangement may not be extended more than once in the same calendar year” shall be omitted.
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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) had not come into operation, until such time as the arrangement lapses, is terminated or is extended.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services on 14th August 1996.
Joan Dixon
Assistant Secretary
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 14th August 1996.
D. Thomson
Assistant Secretary
