The General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services Transitional Provisions (Wales) Order 2006

Treatment commenced prior to 1 April 2006

25.—(1) Where care and treatment is commenced under section 35 arrangements or, as the case may be, a pilot scheme agreement, before 1 April 2006 and is not completed on 31 March 2006 the contractor will use its best endeavours to complete that treatment under its personal dental services agreement in accordance with paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 1 or, as the case may be, paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 3 to the PDS Agreements Regulations.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where treatment specified in a treatment plan provided in accordance with—

(a)paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the 1992 Regulations (as amended by article 27); or

(b)the PDS Directions (as modified by article 28),

is not completed by 1 April 2006 that plan will, after that date, be treated as though it were a treatment plan provided in accordance with paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 to the PDS Agreements Regulations and with regard to that plan, the requirements in sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph were satisfied.

(3) Where treatment specified in a treatment plan in respect of orthodontic care and treatment provided in accordance with—

(a)paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the 1992 Regulations (as amended by article 27); or

(b)the PDS Directions as modified by article 28,

is not completed by 1 April 2006 that plan will, after that date, be treated as though it were a treatment plan provided in accordance with paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the PDS Agreements Regulations and with regard to that plan, the requirements in sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph were satisfied.

(4) Where care and treatment is commenced prior to 1 April 2006 and continues or is completed on or after that date, all of that care and treatment provided will be treated as though it were a course of treatment or, as the case may be, an orthodontic course of care and treatment provided in accordance with the PDS Agreements Regulations.