Statutory Instruments
2007 No. 3005
health care and associated professions
dentists
professions complementary to dentistry
The General Dental Council (Appointments Committee and Appointment of Members of Committees) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 2007
Made
22nd October 2007
Coming into force
23rd October 2007
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 22nd day of October 2007
By the Lords of her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council
The General Dental Council have made the General Dental Council (Appointments Committee and Appointment of Members of Committees) (Amendment) Rules 2007 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 (Appointments Committee and Appointment of Members of Committees) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 2007 and shall come into force on 23rd October 2007.
Judith Simpson
Clerk of the Privy Council
SCHEDULE The General Dental Council (Appointments Committee and Appointment of Members of Committees) (Amendment) Rules 2007
The General Dental Council make the following Rules in exercise of their power conferred under paragraph 8(1)(c) of Schedule 1 to the Dentists Act 1984(2).
Citation and commencement
1. These Rules may be cited as the General Dental Council (Appointments Committee and Appointment of Members of Committees) (Amendment) Rules 2007 and shall come into force on [xxx].
Amendment of rule 7 of the General Dental Council (Appointments Committee and Appointment of Members of Committees) Rules 2006
2. In the General Dental Council (Appointments Committee and Appointment of Members of Committees) Rules 2006(3), in rule 7 (tenure)—
(a) in paragraph (1), for “The term” substitute “Subject to paragraph (1A), the term”; and
(b) after paragraph (1) insert—
“(1A) The term of office of a member of the Appointments Committee whose term of office, in the absence of this paragraph, would expire at the end of 31st December 2007 shall expire at the end of 31st December 2008.”.
Given under the official seal of the General Dental Council on 18th September 2007.
Hew Byrne Mathewson
President
Duncan Hugh Rudkin
Registrar
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order, which is made under the Dentists Act 1984, approves Rules made by the General Dental Council which amend the General Dental Council (Appointments Committee and Appointment of Members of Committees) Rules 2006. The effect of the amendment is to extend the tenure of office of a member of the General Dental Council’s Appointments Committee by one year, so that members’ terms of office expire on 31st December 2008.