(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.
2Amendments to the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974#
(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);”