C13

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.

F11[26C.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), a qualification (in this Act referred to as a "dental specialist qualification") held by a person meets the requirements for recognition as a qualification for registering the person in the Register of Dental Specialists if—

(a) the specialty to which the qualification relates is a specialty recognised by the Council under section 37(1), and

(b) either—

(i) the person—

(I) has, in the opinion of the Council, before the establishment of the Register of Dental Specialists, completed his or her training in that specialty,

(II) has been granted evidence of the satisfactory completion of specialist training by a body recognised by the Council under section 37(3), or

(III) satisfies the Council that he or she has completed a programme of training in specialised dentistry of a standard considered by the Council to be adequate,

or

(ii) the qualification is a professional qualification as a specialised dental practitioner recognised under the Regulations of 2017.

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

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

(b) under Regulation 39(2) of the Regulations of 2017, or

(c) under Part 14 of the Regulations of 2017, is a dental specialist qualification for the purposes of this Act.]