The National Health Service (General Dental Services) Amendment Regulations 1993

means the body referred to in regulation 5B;

means a committee appointed by the Appeal Body in accordance with regulation 5C(3);

means a dentist whose name is included in a dental list and who is approved by a postgraduate dental dean or a Director of postgraduate dental education as being a dentist who has the requisite skills and suitable practice facilities to enable him to act as a trainer;

means the dental service provided in England and Wales under sections 3(1)(c) and 5(1)(a) or (1A) of the 1977 Act and in Scotland under sections 1 and 39(2) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, and in Northern Ireland under articles 5(1)(c), 9(1)(a) and 1A of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;

means any postgraduate dental qualification which is registrable with the General Dental Council. 5 An application for a vocational training number shall be granted if the applicant– a has had a vocational training certificate issued to him;

means care and treatment delivered by the dentist at the first point of contact with the patient, and the “Community Dental Service” means the dental service provided in England and Wales under sections 3(1)(c) and 5(1)(a) or (1A) of the 1977 Act and in Scotland under sections 1 and 39(2) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, and in Northern Ireland under articles 5(1)(c), 9(1)(a) and 1A of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;

means the National Health Service (General Dental Services) Regulations 1992.

means a period of one year’s full time employment (or an equivalent period of part–time employment) undertaken wholly after 30th September 1993 during which a dentist is employed under a contract of service by an approved trainer to provide a wide range of dental care and treatment and to attend such study days as that contract requires with the aim and objectives set out respectively in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 1A;

means a certificate confirming that a dentist has completed vocational training issued– (a) in England, Wales or Northern Ireland by a postgraduate dental dean or a Director of postgraduate dental education;

means a number allocated to a dentist– (a) in England and Wales under regulation 5A, (b) in Scotland under regulation 4ZA of the National Health Service (General Dental Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1974, (c) in Northern Ireland under provisions equivalent to these Regulations;

means a vocational training certificate or a letter confirming that a dentist has completed vocational training on or before 30th September 1994 and signed, in either case, in England and Wales, by a postgraduate dental dean or Director of postgraduate dental education, in Scotland by the chairman of the Scottish Dental Vocational Training Committee or an officer of a Regional Committee for Postgraduate Dental Education and in Northern Ireland by the Adviser in vocational training;”