7.—(1) The Privy Council may, by a direction under subsection (1) of section 60 of the Health Act 2006(1) (Commission to exercise Privy Council’s appointment functions), require the Appointments Commission to appoint the person who held office as President of the General Dental Council on the day before the relevant order comes into force as a member of the General Dental Council as constituted on the day the relevant order comes into force.
(2) The relevant order may include a provision enabling the Privy Council to appoint as the chair of the General Dental Council, for a specified period, the person who held office as President of that Council on the day before the relevant order comes into force.
(3) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2), “relevant order” means the first order of the Privy Council under section 1(2A) of the 1984 Act(2) that includes provision required by paragraph 1B(1) of Schedule 1 to that Act.
(4) On and after the day on which this article comes into force, subsection (3) of section 3 of the 1984 Act(3) (power of medical authorities to hold examinations and grant licences in dentistry) shall apply as if the reference to universities or other bodies who choose appointed members of the General Medical Council were a reference to—
(a)the universities or other bodies who were entitled to choose those members on 31st December 2008; and
(b)such other universities or other bodies as the Privy Council designates by order for the purposes of this paragraph.
(5) Article 5 of the Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008(4) (saving provision relating to the definition of “medical authority” in section 3(3) of the Dentists Act 1984) is superseded by paragraph (4) and, accordingly, is omitted.
Subsection (2A) of section 1 was inserted by S.I. 2001/3926 and substituted by S.I. 2005/2011.
Section 3(3) was amended by S.I. 1987/2047.