C12

Prospective affecting provision: section inserted by Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2020 (16/2020), s. 8, not commenced as of date of revision.

F10[26B.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), a qualification (in this Act referred to as a "dental practitioner qualification") held by a person meets the requirements for recognition as a qualification for registering the person in the register if the person—

(a) was, immediately before the establishment of the register, entitled to be registered in accordance with the Dentists Act 1928 but was not so registered,

(b) has been awarded a primary qualification in dentistry specified in the Second Schedule,

(c) has a qualification as a dental practitioner recognised under the Regulations of 2017,

(d) has a qualification in dentistry from a state other than the State and has passed an examination specified in rules made for the purposes of this paragraph, or

(e) has a qualification in dentistry from a state other than the State and is exempted from paragraph (d) by virtue of falling within a ground, specified in rules made for the purposes of this paragraph, for such exemption.

(2) Subject to Regulations 82 and 83 of the Regulations of 2017, evidence of a professional qualification as a dental practitioner recognised—

(a) in accordance with Regulation 10 or 21 of the Regulations of 2017,

(b) under Regulation 39 of the Regulations of 2017, or

(c) under Part 14 of the Regulations of 2017,

is a dental practitioner qualification for the purposes of this Act.]