
2025 No. 984
HEALTH CARE AND ASSOCIATED PROFESSIONSDentists
The Dentists Act 1984 (Medical Authorities) Order 2025
Made 27th August 2025
Coming into force 3rd September 2025
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 27th day of August 2025
By the Lords of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council
Their Lordships make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by article 7(4)(b) of the Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009.
Citation, commencement and extent
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Dentists Act 1984 (Medical Authorities) Order 2025 and comes into force on 3rd September 2025.
(2) This Order extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Designation of University of Portsmouth
2 
The University of Portsmouth is designated for the purposes of article 7(4)(b) of the Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009 and accordingly is a “medical authority” for the purposes of section 3 of the Dentists Act 1984 (power of medical authorities to hold examinations and grant licences in dentistry).
Richard Tilbrook
Clerk of the Privy Council
