Dentists Act 1985

Application by Council for order suspending registration.

44

44.(1) Whenever the Council is satisfied that it is in the public interest so to do, the Council may apply to the High Court for an order in relation to any person registered in any register maintained under this Act that, during the period specified in the order, registration of that person's name in that register shall not have effect.

(2) An application under this section may be made in a summary manner and shall be heard otherwise than in public.

(3) The High Court may make, in any application under this section, such interim or interlocutory order (if any) as it considers appropriate.

Annotations

Amendments:

F39

Inserted by Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2020 (16/2020), s. 17, not commenced as of date of revision.

Modifications (not altering text):

C29

Prospective affecting provision: subs. (4) inserted by Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2020 (16/2020), s. 17, not commenced as of date of revision.

F39[(4) (a) Paragraph (b) applies where—

(i) a registered dentist becomes the subject of an order under subsection (3), and

(ii) the Council has reason to believe that—

(I) the dentist is registered in another jurisdiction as a dentist, or has made an application to be registered as a dentist in another jurisdiction which has not yet been determined, and

(II) that order may not have come to the attention of the body duly authorised to perform functions in that jurisdiction that correspond to the functions of the Council.

(b) The Council shall give notice in writing to that body of that order and may, notwithstanding any provision of Directive 2005/36/EC or of the Regulations of 2017, provide that body with a copy of the order and copies of other documents relevant to that order.]