New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DENTAL PRACTICE ACT 2001 - SECT 10

10 Impairment as a dentist

(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person suffers from an impairment as a dentist if the person suffers from any physical or mental impairment, disability, condition or disorder that detrimentally affects or is likely to detrimentally affect the person’s physical or mental capacity to practise dentistry.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, a person who habitually abuses alcohol or is addicted to a deleterious drug is taken to suffer from an impairment as a dentist.