Statutory Instruments
2006 No. 1670
HEALTH CARE AND ASSOCIATED PROFESSIONS
PROFESSIONS COMPLEMENTARY TO DENTISTRY
The General Dental Council (Professions Complementary to Dentistry) (Business of Dentistry) Rules Order of Council 2006
Made
23rd June 2006
Laid before Parliament
29th June 2006
Coming into force
31st July 2006
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 23rd day of June 2006
By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council
The General Dental Council have made the General Dental Council (Professions Complementary to Dentistry) (Business of Dentistry) Rules 2006 as set out in the Schedule to this Order.
In accordance with section 50C(2) and (3) of the Dentists Act 1984( 1 ) such Rules shall not come into force until approved by order of the Privy Council.
Having considered the Rules, their Lordships approve them.
This Order may be cited as the General Dental Council (Professions Complementary to Dentistry) (Business of Dentistry) Rules Order of Council 2006 and shall come into force on 31st July 2006.
A K Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council
SCHEDULE The General Dental Council (Professions Complementary to Dentistry) (Business of Dentistry) Rules 2006
The General Dental Council make the following Rules in exercise of their powers conferred under section 41(1)(b) of the Dentists Act 1984( 2 ).
Citation and commencement
1. These Rules may be cited as the General Dental Council (Professions Complementary to Dentistry) (Business of Dentistry) Rules 2006 and shall come into force on 31st July 2006.
Classes of registered dental care professionals prescribed for the purposes of section 41 of the Dentists Act 1984
2. The classes of registered dental care professionals prescribed for the purposes of section 41(1)(b) of the Dentists Act 1984 (restriction on individuals who may carry on the business of dentistry) are those persons registered in the dental care professionals register under the titles which apply to the professions pursued by—
(a) clinical dental technicians;
(b) dental hygienists;
(c) dental nurses;
(d) dental technicians;
(e) dental therapists; and
(f) orthodontic therapists.
Given under the official seal of the General Dental Council on 15th June 2006.
L.S.
Hew Byrne Mathewson
President
Duncan Rudkin
Registrar
1984 c. 24 ; section 50C was inserted by S.I. 2005/2011 .
1984 c. 24 ; section 41 was amended by S.I. 2005/2011 .