Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013
Amendment of Dentists Act 1985. |
33.— The Dentists Act 1985 is amended— | |
(a) in section 38(1) by substituting the following for paragraphs (a) and (b): | ||
“(a) his alleged professional misconduct, | ||
(b) his alleged unfitness to engage in such practice by reason of physical or mental disability, or | ||
(c) his alleged failure to comply with regulations made under section 13 (2) of the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013,”, | ||
(b) in section 38(3) by substituting the following for paragraph (b): | ||
“(b) the Registrar, or any other person with the leave of the Fitness to Practise Committee, shall present to that Committee the evidence of— | ||
(i) the alleged professional misconduct, | ||
(ii) the alleged unfitness to practise by reason of physical or mental disability, or | ||
(iii) the alleged failure to comply with regulations referred to in subsection (1)(c), | ||
as the case may be,”, | ||
(c) in section 38(3)(c) by substituting the following for subparagraph (i) and (ii): | ||
“(i) the alleged professional misconduct of the registered dentist, | ||
(ii) the fitness or otherwise of that dentist to engage in the practice of dentistry by reason of his or her alleged physical or mental disability, or | ||
(iii) the alleged failure to comply with regulations referred to in subsection (1)(c),”, | ||
(d) in section 38(5) by substituting the following for paragraphs (a) and (b): | ||
“(a) guilty of professional misconduct, | ||
(b) unfit to engage in the practice of dentistry because of physical or mental disability, or | ||
(c) guilty of a failure to comply with regulations referred to in subsection (1)(c),”, | ||
and | ||
(e) in section 39(1) by substituting the following for paragraph (a): | ||
“(a) has been found by the Fitness to Practise Committee, on the basis of an inquiry and report under section 38— | ||
(i) to be guilty of professional misconduct, | ||
(ii) to be unfit to engage in the practice of dentistry because of physical or mental disability, or | ||
(iii) to be guilty of a failure to comply with the regulations referred to in section 38(1)(c), | ||
as the case may be, or”. |